1. Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
   "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture";
   - transmute, transubstantiate
    
2. Subject to a mathematical transformation
   "The physicist transformed the equation to simplify the calculation"
    
3. Change from one form or medium into another
   "Braque transformed collage into oil";
   - translate
    
4. Change in outward structure or looks
   "He transformed into a monster";
   - transmute, metamorphose
    
5. (physics) convert (one form of energy) to another
   "transform energy to light"
    
6. (biology) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
   "Scientists transformed the E. coli cells with plasmid DNA"
    
7. (physics) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
   "The device transforms the voltage from 220V to 110V"

Derived forms: transformed, transforms, transforming

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Transform, clipping, and lighting