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In mathematics, a mapping or function, especially one which causes a change of shape or position in a geometric figure. Reflection, rotation, enlargement, and translation are the main geometrical transformations.

Two or more transformations performed on one shape are called combined transformations. The transformation of a shape from A to B can be reversed by an inverse transformation from B back onto A.



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Little more than a year later the transformation which the old Valmet place had undergone was the talk and wonder of Cote Joyeuse.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
Then you shall have permission to touch eleven different objects, pronouncing at the time the word 'Ev,' and if any one of them, or more than one, proves to be the transformation of the Queen of Ev or any of her ten children, then they will instantly be restored to their true forms and may leave my palace and my kingdom in your company, without any objection whatever.
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They debated whether the moon was a finished world, or whether it was destined to undergo any further transformation.
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