Word family noun form formation transformation reformer reform reformation reformist transformer formlessness adjective reformed reformist formless verb form reform transform adverb formlessly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtransformertrans‧form‧er /trænsˈfɔːmə $ -ˈfɔːrmər/ noun [countable] TEEa piece of equipment for changing electricity from one voltage to anotherExamples from the Corpus
transformer• Signal voltage gain is always accompanied by greater signal current attenuation and viceversa with a transformer.• But new designs, which do without costly transformers, have trimmed prices.• This causes the beam to bend and the displacement is measured by means of a strain gauge or a differential transformer.• The potential differences between B, C and D are again very small, arising only from small losses in the transformer.• Apparently crews were trying to repair a small outage affecting 1,640 customers in the Mission when the transformer went out. 