Commentary: TRANSFORMATION[+event] translation, transmutation, shift- the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
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A photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1 5
Commentary: a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
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Chomsky's first five rules pertain to phrase structure but the sixth is about transformations.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary: a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
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This program will do a polynomial transformation.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
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Today we're studying regulation of fibronectin receptor distribution by transformation.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4