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单词 transmutation
释义
transmutation
noun[CorU]
chemistryformalorspecialized
uk
/ˌtrænz.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌtræns.mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/
theactorprocessofchangingsomethingcompletely,especiallyinto something different:
衍变，蜕变
Nuclear transmutation is theconversionof onechemicalelementinto another.原子核蜕变是指一种化学元素变为另一种化学元素。
Theseparticlesarelikelyto haveundergoneseveral transmutations intheirshortlives.在它们短暂的生命周期中这些粒子可能发生几次蜕变。
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transmute
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  • Noattemptwill be made here todiscussBoyle'sinterestin the transmutation ofmetals.
  • He was astudentat Edinburgh, where hemetachemistfamousfor his transmutationexperiments.
  • Thefatapplesthatappearfrom theseflowersseemedto me to have anelementof transmutation about them.
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(Definition oftransmutationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

transmutation| American Dictionary

transmutation
noun[C/U]
us/ˌtræns·mjuˈteɪ·ʃən,ˌtrænz-/
physics,chemistry
theprocessofchangingoneelementto another, eithernaturallyor bynuclearreaction
(Definition oftransmutationfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It deals with mechanisms oftransmutationand misrepresentation of the real motivations of agents.
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For example, misrepresentation andtransmutationput stress on the feasibility of ideals of deliberative democracy.
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The work is a metaphor which portrays subtle transformations (or transmutations) in human existence precipitated by pervasive new technology.
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This is not atransmutation(section 3.1), because the weight of p may also change.
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By comparison, interest in artificial radioactivity andtransmutation, to the extent that it remained in the purely phenomenological realm, seems to have faded.
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The trouble, of course, is that the scientific evidence also speaks in favor oftransmutationand, correspondingly, of human descent from animals.
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Thus, while apparently rejecting inter-speciestransmutation, he advocated "parallel evolution" and rejected essentialist doctrines of special creation.
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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.
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Sometimes the clue to new insight was given by observing transformations and transmutations in nature known to occur spontaneously.
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There are no plausible theories that explain exactly how misrepresentation andtransmutationwork.
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Separation anxiety: metaphoric transmutations from a paradoxical biological instrument, or: what is a cactus doing in our concert hall?
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The subject and the composition, the original inspiration and itstransmutationon paper-these are no longer the domain of the craftsman.
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The music, fittingly, undergoes atransmutation, a sea change.
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This is an impor tant result demonstrating thetransmutationof fission by product in to a safe isotope.
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Empires often mean highly heterogeneous peoples and cultures coming into close and prolonged contact and the result is inevitably sometransmutationof both.
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