Other forms: transformations
A transformation is a complete change in form or character. A digital transformation, undergo a transformation, a remarkable transformation.
It means the thing is not recognisable afterwards, which is why business language reaches for it so often and so dishonestly. In mathematics a transformation is a precise operation that maps one set of points onto another.
1nountransformationA complete change in form or character.
“The old warehouse has undergone a complete transformation into a bright modern art gallery.”
transformation is a change.
Latin transformatio comes from transformare — trans, across, plus forma, a shape.
Ecclesiastical Latin
trānsfōrmātiō
Middle English
transformacioun
English, today
transformation
Middle English transformacioun, from Middle French -, from Ecclesiastical Latin trānsfōrmātiō. Morphologically transform + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA