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 --
Empires often mean highly heterogeneous peoples and cultures coming into close and prolonged contact and the result is inevitably some transmutation of both.
This is an impor tant result demonstrating the transmutation of fission by product in to a safe isotope.
The music, fittingly, undergoes a transmutation, a sea change.
The subject and the composition, the original inspiration and its transmutation on paper-these are no longer the domain of the craftsman.
Separation anxiety: metaphoric transmutations from a paradoxical biological instrument, or: what is a cactus doing in our concert hall?
There are no plausible theories that explain exactly how misrepresentation and transmutation work.
Sometimes the clue to new insight was given by observing transformations and transmutations in nature known to occur spontaneously.
The knowledge transformers, like the knowledge generation transmutations, change the logical content of the input knowledge through the inference process of deduction, induction, or analogy.
