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Synonyms for transmutation

the process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another

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Synonyms for transmutation

an act that changes the form or character or substance of something

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(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)

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Torba, "Transmutations for Darboux transformed operators with applications," Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol.
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At the same time as the release of The Ten Transmutations Hatsis's new website, http://www.marcanthonyhatsis.com, will be launched, which will feature his most recent paintings and poems.
Such line-order transpositions may either preserve the verse's original rhyme and palindromicity schemes ("permutations") or change one or both of these ("transmutations").
That is, someone is in murderous pursuit of the dispersed contents of a twelfth-century Islamo/Sicilian library whose reassembly would permit yet another transmutation or transformation of the luckless world into something else.
The index points readers to such topics as the Bible, creationism, DNA, embryology, fossils, genetics, sexual attractiveness, and transmutations.
Gray has gone through more transmutations than the cast of Saturday Night Live.
Author Gerald Horne is to be commended on this in-depth expose of the transmutations of a woman who should be hailed as one of the premier intellectual activists of modern times.
Lindeman's trophic-dynamic conception of the ecosystem that Forel's intuitions about "successive reincarnations, transmutations and metamorphoses of organic matter" were quantitatively measured.
In Terminator 2, the sexiest bit came when the audience wanted to have sex with the morphing man-of-mercury who had just paused long enough in his transmutations to become a woman.
Male and female roles wither into androgynous transmutations. During pensive moments, the lights dim; the dancers scatter and go to the wall upstage or secretly examine themselves.