transmutation
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- noun The act or an instance of transmuting; transformation.
- noun The state of being transmuted.
- noun Physics Transformation of one element into another by one or a series of nuclear reactions.
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- But this transmutation was not attained until he had passed through a very furnace of financial embarrassment. — A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
- "With transmutation, they would use a total conversion drive." — The Ringworld Engineers
- "Did you ever tell her that transmutation was your hypothesis?" — The Ringworld Engineers
- To build the ring at all, they must have had cheap transmutation -- a few tenth-stars per kiloton -- not to mention a dozen other impossibilities. " — Ringworld
- "Where are they now?" — The Brothers' War
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- from Middle English transmutacioun, from Old French transmutacion, French transmutation =Provencal transmutacio =Spanish transmutacion, trasmutacion =Portuguese transmutação =Italian trasmutazione, from Latin transmutatio (n-), a changing, a shifting, from transmutare, change, transmute: see transmute.
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/ (trănsˌmyo͞o-tāˈshən, trănzˌ-)/
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