transformer
Syllables: trans·form·erUK/tɹænsˈfɔːmə//tɹænsˈfoɹməɹ/
transformer noun: something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape. Also the alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
Noun (1)
transformer (plural transformers)
- Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
- A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.
- While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved.2018 December 28, Michael Gold, “How an Explosion (Not Aliens) Turned New York’s Night Sky an Electric Blue”, in The New York Times
- A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.
- Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP.2021, Lei Chen, Deep Learning and Practice with MindSpore, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 116
- The transformer helped machine-learning systems improve at a much faster pace, leading directly to last year’s release of ChatGPT and the attendant boom in interest around AI. (Transformers are the “T” in ChatGPT.)2023 January 31, Casey Newton, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge
- A transgender person.
Noun (2) capitalized: Transformer
Transformer (plural Transformers)
- A toy in the Transformers toyline which has mechanical parts that allow it to be altered in appearance from its original form as a humanoid robot action figure to another form, usually a vehicle, depending on the toy.
- In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.
- “It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”2015, Steve Berry, The Patriot Threat: A Novel, page 304
- A Transformer may be both a robot and a plane, or a robot and a car, but not both simultaneously.2014, Barbara Brownie, Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography, page 95
Also used as
transformer is also the alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
transformer meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati
transformer in Hindi
- device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity
- ट्रान्सफ़ॉर्मर ṭrānsafŏrmar, परिणामित्र pariṇāmitra
transformer in Urdu
- device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity
- ٹرانْسْفارْمَر ṭrānsfārmar
transformer in Bengali
- device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity
- ট্রান্সফরমার ṭranśophromar
transformer in Gujarati
- device that changes the characteristics of AC electricity
- ફેરવણું pheravṇũ
More languagesFewer languages
- transformer in Tagalog
- palitab
- transformer in Arabic
- مُحَوِّل muḥawwil
- transformer in Malay
- pengubah
- transformer in Indonesian
- transformator
- transformer in Persian
- ترانسفورماتور terânsformâtor, مبدل mobaddel
- transformer in Thai
- หม้อแปลงไฟ mɔ̂ɔ-bplɛɛng-fai, หม้อแปลงไฟฟ้า mɔ̂ɔ-bplɛɛng-fai-fáa
- transformer in Vietnamese
- máy biến thế, máy biến áp, biến áp
- transformer in Myanmar
- လျှပ်တာပြောင်း hlyapta-praung:, ထရန်စဖော်မာ hta.ranca.hpauma
Examples of transformer in a sentence
- I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
- The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
- A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
Forms of transformer
| plural | transformers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tformer |
| alternative form | t-former |
| plural | Transformers |
| alternative form | TFormer |
| alternative form | Tformer |
| alternative form | T-former |
| alternative form | T-Former |
| alternative form (archaic) | transformator |
Origin of transformer
From transform + -er.
From transformer (something that transforms).
Words formed from transformer
Words that rhyme with transformer
Questions about transformer
- What does transformer mean?
- Transformer means something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
- What is transformer in Hindi?
- Transformer in Hindi is ट्रान्सफ़ॉर्मर (ṭrānsafŏrmar), परिणामित्र (pariṇāmitra). See Transformer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is transformer?
- Transformer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce transformer?
- Transformer is pronounced /tɹænsˈfɔːmə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of transformer?
- The plural of transformer is transformers.
Words near transformer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transformer (page history and authors); Transformer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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