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Transformation vs Reconstruction - What's the difference?

transformation | reconstruction |

As a noun transformation

is .

As a proper noun reconstruction is

a period of the history of the united states from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-confederate states, the ex-confederate leaders, and the freedmen (ex-slaves) after the american civil war.

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

    reconstruction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  • The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
  • The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
  • A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
  • The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.