Meaning & use
transmutation
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The action of changing or being changed from one form, nature, or substance into another.
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Medieval alchemists sought a way to achieve the transmutation of lead into gold.
The novel traces the character's slow transmutation from idealist to cynic.
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Historically tied to alchemy but now used more broadly, including in nuclear physics for the conversion of one element into another.
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