New Word

Here's the new word for November 15, 2010. Have fun!

TRANSFORMATION

Noun:

1. The act of transforming or the state of being transformed
2. A marked, thorough or dramatic change in form, appearance, or character, etc. especially one for the better
3. (mathmatics) the replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
4. (linguistics) a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule
5. (genetics) the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic
6. (politics, South African) ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist African national groupthink

Synonyms:

Metamorphosis, transmogrification, conversion, permutation, revolution

Verb:

Transform: alter, change, convert, make over, transmogrify