0 the act or process of changing something completely, especially into something different:
1 the process of changing one element to another, either naturally or by nuclear reaction
No attempt will be made here to discuss Boyle's interest in the transmutation of metals.
He was a student at Edinburgh, where he met a chemist famous for his transmutation experiments.
The fat apples that appear from these flowers seemed to me to have an element of transmutation about them.
It deals with mechanisms of transmutation and misrepresentation of the real motivations of agents.
For example, misrepresentation and transmutation put stress on the feasibility of ideals of deliberative democracy.
The work is a metaphor which portrays subtle transformations (or transmutations) in human existence precipitated by pervasive new technology.
This is not a transmutation (section 3.1), because the weight of p may also change.
By comparison, interest in artificial radioactivity and transmutation, to the extent that it remained in the purely phenomenological realm, seems to have faded.
