Usually means: Changing one element into another.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. transmutation: Merriam-Webster
  2. transmutation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transmutation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transmutation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transmutation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Transmutation, transmutation: Wordnik
  7. transmutation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. transmutation: Wiktionary
  9. transmutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. transmutation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. transmutation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. transmutation: Dictionary.com
  13. transmutation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), Transmutation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Transmutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. transmutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. transmutation: Rhymezone
  18. Transmutation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. transmutation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. transmutation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. transmutation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. transmutation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. transmutation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. transmutation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transmutation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. transmutation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. transmutation: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Transmutation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (transmutation)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) Change, alteration.
▸ noun:  The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
▸ noun:  (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.
▸ noun:  (nuclear physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.

Similar:
transformation, transubstantiation, shift, immutation, commutation, overchanging, version, transexion, mutuation, mutation, more...

Opposite:
stasis, stability, constancy, permanence

Types:
alphdecay, betdecay, gammdecay, positron emission, electron capture, spontaneous fission, more...

Phrases:
Nuclear transmutation, transmutation of metals, transmutation of elements, Transmutation of species, more...

Adjectives:
artificial, nuclear, such, alchemical, first, gradual, complete, natural, atomic, metallic, real

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     copper,     bronze,     emerald, more...


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Similar:
transformation, transubstantiation, shift, immutation, commutation, overchanging, version, transexion, mutuation, mutation, more...

Opposite:
stasis, stability, constancy, permanence

Types:
alphdecay, betdecay, gammdecay, positron emission, electron capture, spontaneous fission, more...

Phrases:
Nuclear transmutation, transmutation of metals, transmutation of elements, Transmutation of species, more...

Adjectives:
artificial, nuclear, such, alchemical, first, gradual, complete, natural, atomic, metallic, real

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     copper,     bronze,     emerald, more...



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