olemus
sõltub kontekstist

näiteid
bioloogias: geneetilise teabe vahetus bakterikultuuride vahel
lingvistikas: lause(osa) grammatiline teisendus

Wiktionary:
4. (linguistics) a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule
5. (genetics) the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic

vt ka
- muundus
- teisendus
- transformeerima