Transmutation

1. n. The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
2. n. The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
3. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.