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transform   (TTS Sound)

The verb transform has 7 senses

• transform -- (subject to a mathematical transformation)


• transform, transmute, transubstantiate -- (change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another")


• transform, transmute, metamorphose -- (change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle")


• translate, transform -- (change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil")


• transform -- (convert (one form of energy) to another; "transform energy to light")


• transform -- (change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species)


• transform -- (increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage))