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| change |
a transformation or alteration. [1/18 definitions] |
| desertification |
the transformation of fertile land to desert by natural causes, esp. drought, or through human activity such as deforestation, overgrazing, and the like. |
| metamorphosis |
a complete change of form, structure, substance, appearance, or character; transformation. [1/3 definitions] |
| metastasis |
a change in form, appearance, or character; transformation; metamorphosis. [1/2 definitions] |
| oocyte |
a cell in the earliest stage of transformation into a female egg; immature egg. |
| permutation |
the act, process, or result of change; transformation. [1/2 definitions] |
| retransformation |
combined form of transformation. |
| revolution |
a massive upheaval in ideas or ways of doing something, or the widescale change or transformation that occurs because of it. [1/5 definitions] |
| sea change |
any striking transformation or alteration, often an improvement. [1/2 definitions] |
| self-transformation |
combined form of transformation. |
| transfiguration |
(cap.) such a transformation ascribed to Jesus Christ in the Bible, or the church festival celebrating this event, observed on August 6. [1/2 definitions] |
| transform |
to undergo a transformation. [1/5 definitions] |
| transformative |
causing transformation. |
| translation |
conversion; transformation. [1/4 definitions] |
| transmutation |
the act or process of transmuting or the state of being transmuted; transformation. [1/3 definitions] |
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