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means A complete change in form, nature, or character — when something becomes meaningfully different from what it was.
from From Latin 'transformare' — 'trans-' (across, beyond) plus 'forma' (shape, form), so literally to carry a shape across into another. It entered English through Old French in the late Middle Ages, the '-ation' ending marking it as the act or process itself: not just the changed thing, but the crossing-over that changed it.
- cell turnover
- most of your atoms are replaced within a decade
- butterfly truth
- caterpillars liquefy entirely inside the chrysalis first
- etymology
- Latin trans-formare, to carry across into shape
- phase change
- water becomes steam without changing a single atom
- kafka
- Gregor woke transformed, family changed more than he did
metamorphosis of franz kafka — 1915 novella where traveling salesman gregor samsa wakes up as a giant insect
caterpillar to butterfly — biological metamorphosis taking 3-5 weeks through four life stages
oppenheimer at trinity — july 16 1945 new mexico: first atomic bomb test transformed warfare forever