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Transmutation
transmutation
see transmute TRANSMUTE (transmutes, transmuting, transmuted) If something transmutes or is transmuted into a different form, it is changed into that form. (FORMAL) She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion... Scientists transmuted matter into pure energy and exploded the first atomic bomb. VERB: V into n, V n into n, also V n • transmutation (transmutations) ...the transmutation of food into energy. N-VAR: oft N of n
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noun Etymology: Middle English transmutacioun, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French transmutacion, from Latin ~-, transmutatio, from transmutare Date: 14th century an act or instance of transmuting or being transmuted: as a. the conversion of base metals into gold or silver b. the conversion of one element or nuclide into another either naturally or artificially • transmutative adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 the act or an instance of transmuting or changing into another form etc. 2 Alchemy hist. the supposed process of changing base metals into gold. 3 Physics the changing of one element into another by nuclear bombardment etc. 4 Geom. the changing of a figure or body into another of the same area or volume. 5 Biol. Lamarck's theory of the change of one species into another. Derivatives transmutational adj. transmutationist n. Etymology: ME f. OF transmutation or LL transmutatio (as TRANSMUTE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) взаимопревращение 2) превращение 3) трансмутация - nuclear transmutation - transmutation of elements ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. превращение, преобразование transmutations of fortune —- превратности судьбы 2. спец. трансмутация; превращение artificial transmutation —- искусственное превращение (элементов) transmutation of metals —- превращение металлов (в алхимии - в золото или серебро) 3. юр. изменение владельца (также transmutation of possession) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- c.1380, from L.L. transmutationem (nom. transmutatio) "a change, shift," from L. transmutare "change from one condition to another," from trans- "thoroughly" + mutare "to change." A word from alchemy. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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