transduce

Verb

transduce (third-person singular simple present transduces, present participle transducing, simple past and past participle transduced)

1. (transitive) To convert energy from one form to another.
   • Five different types of sensory receptors are classified according to the energy they transduce in creating the different senses. These include mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, thermoreceptors, and electroreceptors.2008, Arlan W. Fuhr, The Activator Method, →ISBN
2. (transitive) To transfer or copy genetic material from one cell or virus into another.
   • After the transducing phage DNA is introduced into the recipient cell genome, the cell acquires, in addition to phage genes, genetic information that originated from the phage's previous host. Thus, in specialized transduction, the phage serves as a vector for transferring genes from one cell to...1991, Maxine Singer, Paul Berg, Genes And Genomes, →ISBN
3. (transitive) To transfer or convert information from one form or medium to another.
   • Much as computers must transduce input information, the nervous system must transduce sensory information before it can be analyzed internally.2003, L. Donald Partridge, Nervous System Actions and Interactions: Concepts in Neurophysiology, →ISBN
   • Information is also collected by an animal’s nervous system as it lives its life. When the ear transduces sound into neural firings, the two physical processes—vibrating air and diffusing ions—could not be more different. But thanks to the correlation between them, the pattern of neural activity in...2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin, →ISBN