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• n  an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
• n  a qualitative change
• n  (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)
  the transmutation of base metals into gold proved to be impossible

• Mysterious mercury, the only metal liquid at ordinary temperatures, was the basis for the alchemical transmutation of the elements.
• Last week another milestone in the galloping progress of atomic transmutation was marked by the disclosure of a few atoms of Radium E created in the laboratories of the University .
• The beauty and ferocious speed of the sport have survived despite the transmutation.

• transubstantiation
• transformation
• shift

News & Articles

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• Features & Columns
  In the summer of 2015, the old Rose-Croix University building at Rosicrucian Park will complete a transmutation into a newly equipped facility to showcase all aspects of the ancient art of alchemy, making San Jose home to the largest alchemy museum in the world.
  Oct. 23, 2013 - Metro Silicon Valley

Quotes

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• Colin Channer in Jamaica Gleaner
  The much-anticipated symbolic musical clash/jam session which is literally carved in stone on the yearly literary festival's calendar was again, "A great example of what Calabash is on the level of the soul. It is nothing less than a transmutation...
• Rana Dasgupta in guardian.co.uk
  I suppose I'm interested in the things people do to accommodate themselves in the world - the dark things, the glorious things,says Dasgupta. "Sometimes, transmutation is a way of dramatising the dream of a self of infinite possibility,...