transformation

Noun

• the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
  • a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface
    

• (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA

• a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure

• (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system

• a qualitative change

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  translation , transmutation , shift