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say it: tran-sfur-MAY-shuhn
transformation is a noun meaning "a qualitative change". It is pronounced /ˌtɹænsfɚˈmeɪʃən/ — tran-sfur-MAY-shuhn. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a qualitative change
(mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
mathematics
a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure
(genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA
genetics
the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
“a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transformation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.