Transform and Replace

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.

verb

• Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected. )
  • usage: "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
• Take the place or move into the position of.
  • usage: "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
  • synonyms: supplant, supersede, supervene upon, supercede
• Put something back where it belongs.
  • usage: "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
  • synonyms: put back
• Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
  • usage: "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
  • synonyms: substitute, interchange, exchange

• (v.t.) To put in a new or different place.
• (v.t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition or the like.
• (v.t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
• (v.t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
• (v.t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.