Transformation
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For other things relating to "transform", see Transform (disambiguation).
Transformation may refer to:
- Metamorphosis and shapeshifting, the change of an entity into another in myth and in fiction. See also transformation fetish
In molecular biology:
- Transformation (genetics), the genetic alteration of a cell resulting from the introduction of foreign DNA
- Transformation process, in cell division, converts normal cells into cells that will continue to divide without limit
- Transformation (mathematics), in mathematics, as a general term applies to mathematical functions
- Chemical transformation, in chemistry, shows the conversion of a substrate to a product omitting the reagents or catalysts
In literature:
- Transformation (novel), a 2000 novel by Carol Berg
- Transformation Stories Archive, a website that archives stories that feature a personal physical transformation
In computing:
- Program transformation, process of converting special source code into other detailed structures
- Data transformation, process of converting data from a source into a destination format
- XML transformation, process of transforming an XML document into another one with languages like XSLT, XQuery, STX, FXT, XDuce, HaXml, FleXML, etc.
- Model transformation, process of converting a model Ma conforming to metamodel MMa into model Mb conforming to metamodel MMb. If MMa=MMb, then the transformation is endogeneous else it is an exogeneous transformation. Moel transformation is usually performed with languages like GReAT, VIATRA, ATL, etc.
- Vocabulary-based transformation; A vocabulary-based transformation (VBT) is a transformation aided by the use of a semantic equivalence statements within a controlled vocabulary.
In other uses:
- Transformation (music), any operation or process that a composer or performer may apply to a musical variable
- "Transformation", in post-apartheid South Africa, the processes by which the previously disenfranchised majority population enter the mainstream of public life
- Naked transformation, in anime, a process in which magical girls change from their "normal" to "magical" forms
- In warfare, Transformation describes the introduction and use of seemingly revolutionary methods of mainly strategic nature to gain a permanent advantage over the enemy.
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