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The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.

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  1. n. The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
  2. n. The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square.
  3. n. The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
  4. n. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
  5. n. a qualitative change
  6. n. (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)
  7. n:100 n. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something n. (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)