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Transform vs Transverse - What's the difference?

transform | transverse |

In lang=en terms the difference between transform and transverse

is that transform is to undergo a transformation while transverse is to overturn; to change.

As verbs the difference between transform and transverse

is that transform is to change greatly the appearance or form of while transverse is to overturn; to change.

As nouns the difference between transform and transverse

is that transform is (mathematics) the result of a transformation while transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart.

As an adjective transverse is

situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.

transform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To change greatly the appearance or form of.
    • The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Love may transform me to an oyster.
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  • To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
  • * Bible, Romans xii. 2
    • Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  • (mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
  • (electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
  • (genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
  • To undergo a transformation.

    • Synonyms

    * (change greatly the appearance or form of) alter, change, convert, make over, transmogrify * (sense) alter, change * (undergo a transformation) alter, change

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) the result of a transformation

    • Derived terms

    * Fourier transform

    Related terms

    * transformable * transformance * transformant * transformate * transformation * transformational * transformative * transformed * transformer * transforming * transformism * transformist * transformity English ergative verbs English heteronyms English words prefixed with trans- ----

    transverse

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
  • (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

    • Antonyms

    * (lying across) longitudinal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

    • Verb

    (transvers)
  • To overturn; to change.
  • * Rev. Charles Leslie
    • And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  • (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
    • (Duke of Buckingham)
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