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English noun: transmutation | |||
| 1. | transmutation (act) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | ||
| Synonyms | transubstantiation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conversion | ||
| 2. | transmutation (event) a qualitative change | ||
| Synonyms | shift, transformation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alteration, change, modification | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | advance, betterment, changeover, conversion, degeneration, improvement, population shift, pyrolysis, retrogression, sea change, strengthening, sublimation, tin disease, tin pest, tin plague, transition, weakening | ||
| 3. | transmutation (event) (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) | ||
| Samples | The transmutation of base metals into gold proved to be impossible. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alteration, change, modification | ||
| Domain category | natural philosophy, physics | ||
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