Transform and Deviate

verb

• Subject to a mathematical transformation.
• Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature.
  • usage: "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"
  • synonyms: transmute, transubstantiate
• Change in outward structure or looks.
  • usage: "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"
  • synonyms: transmute, metamorphose
• Change from one form or medium into another.
  • usage: "Braque translated collage into oil"
  • synonyms: translate
• Convert (one form of energy) to another.
  • usage: "transform energy to light"
• Change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species.
• Increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage. ).

• (v.t.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.
• (v.i.) To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.
• (v.t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
• (v.t.) To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
• (v.t.) To change in nature, disposition, heart, character or the like; to convert.

Transform is a process to change or convert. For example, a simple moving average is a filter to reduce noise; the moving average is the transform function.

noun

• A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.
  • synonyms: pervert, deviant, degenerate

verb

• Turn aside; turn away from.
  • synonyms: divert
• Be at variance with; be out of line with.
  • synonyms: vary, diverge, depart
• Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course.
  • usage: "The river was deviated to prevent flooding"

adjective

• Markedly different from an accepted norm.
  • usage: "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"
  • synonyms: aberrant, deviant

• (v.t.) To cause to deviate.
• (v.i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.