Transmutation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRANSMUTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an act of transmuting
• the changing of one element into another by radioactive decay, nuclear bombardment, or similar processes.
• the conversion or transformation of one species into another.
• the supposed alchemical process of changing base metals into gold.
• the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form
• The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
• 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.
• The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
• an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
• a qualitative change
• (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act or instance of transmuting or being transmuted; as; the conversion of base metals into gold or silver; the conversion of one element or nuclide into another either naturally or artificially

Words related to TRANSMUTATION

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How to use TRANSMUTATION in a sentence

• Observations and experiments on the transmutation of species.
• In September, 1858, Darwin, at the earnest advice of Lyell and Hooker, set to work to prepare a volume on the transmutation of species.
• Now, investigation shows that the physical body, is a mechanism specially adapted for the transmutation of the inner or mental power into modes of external activity.
• He does not yet understand the process of accumulation and transmutation.
• Yet no man has been more distinct and more logical in the denial of the transmutation of species than Sir C.
• The extraordinary property of transmutation is entirely automatic.
• There is scarcely a block in the whole extent of this fine street of which some part is not in a state of transmutation.
• But this transmutation was not attained until he had passed through a very furnace of financial embarrassment.
• A frequent and a just objection to the Lamarckian hypothesis of the transmutation of species is based upon the absence of transitional forms between many species.
• He never quite relinquished the idea of transmutation of metals, and at times astrology was quite as interesting to him as astronomy.
• The doctrine was formed by the unconscious transmutation of metaphors into dogmas.
• Soon after the statement of the transmutation theory, a striking verification of one of its consequences appeared.
• We are neither for nor against the transmutation of species, neither for nor against the principle of natural selection.
• A detailed examination of his mode of transmutation would be a curious study in the technical secrets of literary execution.
• Of these the first is with respect to the transmutation of creatures, which is three-fold.
• But the transmutation of creatures, inasmuch as they may be brought to nothing, corresponds to their creation, whereby they were brought from nothing.
• Again, this conversion has something in common with natural transmutation in two respects, although not in the same fashion.
• This is probably the most complete transmutation of species which has ever been imagined or described.
• By means of the transmutation, which it is the prerogative of man to effect, this instinct may work out into a lifetime devoted to the study of Nature.
• In less metaphorical language this transmutation depends upon the measure of self-control and deference of present desire to future purpose.
• Bankruptcy is a species of chemical transmutation, from which a clever merchant tries to emerge in fresh shape.
• The creation of gold in the Great Work is effected by transmutation and multiplication.
• Hermetic secret is to find the bases of faith, truth, transmutation, 776-l.
• Magical agent makes possible the transmutation of metals and the universal medicine, 773-l.
• Secret knowledge of the Grand Scottish Master relates to the transmutation of substances, 780-u.
• This is the plain statement of the case in the very words of the originator of this process, and of this strange transmutation.
• Thereafter it is carried to the liver, where it being changed again, it by the virtue of that new transmutation becomes blood.
• Nor will there be any metamorphosis or transmutation made of you into a drum or tabor, but you will surely be as soundly beaten as ever was tabor at a merry wedding.
• They forget that every achievement not registered in terms of beauty has failed of its final and enduring transmutation.
• Though we have a machine for the transmutation of facts into food for our growth, we do not dream of using it.
• Calculation and transmutation can never make their own counters or the medium in which they move.
• But in our human life the transmutation is often not so easy as in flowers.
• When these limits are reached the transmutation of sexual energy may become useless or even dangerous, and we fail to attain the exquisite flower of Purity.

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