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Transformation vs Evolve - What's the difference?

transformation | evolve |

As a noun transformation

is .

As a verb evolve is

to move in regular procession through a system.

transformation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
  • A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
  • (mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
  • (linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
  • (genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
  • (politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
  • Synonyms

    * metamorphosis * transmogrification * transmutation * transfiguration

    Derived terms

    * transformational

    evolve

    English

    Verb

  • To move in regular procession through a system.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
  • * (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
  • The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
  • * (w) (1819-1885)
  • Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
  • To change, transform, develop.
  • * 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
  • You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
  • (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
  • (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).