0 able to produce a big change or improvement in a situation:
Action to encourage home insulation by the EU represents a potentially transformational event for government-funded installation agencies.
a transformational acquisition/deal/merger
a transformational strategy/reform/step The company's chief executive described the transaction as a "transformational step" in implementing new corporate strategy.
transformative ideas/experiences
The major syntactic difference between the two response types is phrase-structural, not transformational.
Another feature of transformational syntax which is of doubtful descriptive status is the notion of underlying structures.
They failed (and did so rather badly) only on a subset of the sentences that contained transformational movement.
For plan adaptation, derivational analogy has demonstrated several advantages over transformational adaptation approaches.
The compositional gap to be filled lies in the development of transformational techniques that do not destroy the referential elements of the recorded sound material.
In the early sixties, however, finite state models were soon submerged in a flood of transformational models.
A transformational mechanism has been implemented to operate in the same way as the recovery module, autonomously detecting the surface markers that indicate various constructions.
The exclusive emphasis on equivalences reflects the intended transformational application of laws.
