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Veering vs Transmutation - What's the difference?

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Veering is a related term of transmutation.


As nouns the difference between veering and transmutation

is that veering is a motion that veers; a sudden swerve while transmutation is (obsolete) change, alteration.

As a verb veering

is .

veering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.
  • [H]er mood, though consistently excited, was labile in affect, with sudden veerings from stormy hypomania to fearfulness and agitated depression.'' — Oliver Sacks, ''Awakenings .

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    transmutation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Change, alteration.
  • The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
  • (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 261:
  • The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept.
  • (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.