(n.) The act of transforming, or the state of being
transformed; change of form or condition.
(n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general
character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the
embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect
(metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of
a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
(n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in
assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis.
(n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal
into another; transmutation.
(n.) A change in disposition, heart, character, or the
like; conversion.
(n.) The change, as of an equation or quantity, into
another form without altering the value.
