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transmutation   (TTS Sound)

The noun transmutation has 3 senses

• transmutation, transubstantiation -- (an act that changes the form or character or substance of something)


• transformation, transmutation, shift -- (a qualitative change)


• transmutation -- ((physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment); "the transmutation of base metals into gold proved to be impossible")