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1. Subject to a mathematical transformation
    
2. Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
   "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"
   - transmute, transubstantiate
    
3. Change in outward structure or looks
   "He transformed into a monster"
   - transmute, metamorphose
    
4. Change from one form or medium into another
   "Braque transformed collage into oil"
   - translate
    
5. Convert (one form of energy) to another
   "transform energy to light"
    
6. Change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
    
7. Increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)

Derived forms: transforms, transforming, transformed

See also: transformation, transformer

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Transform Transform, Clipping and Lighting Transform, clipping, and lighting