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# transformer

noun (a transformer, transformers)

«transformer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A transformer is a device that changes the voltage of electricity, making it higher or lower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#m1)
2. Anything that changes something else can be called a transformer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#m2)
3. Transformers is a famous toy and film series about robots that change into cars and trucks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#m3)
4. In computing, a transformer is a type of computer program used in many modern AI language models. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science lessons it explains how power stations send electricity long distances at high voltage and transformers lower it for homes. In everyday life children know the robot toys. Phrases: step-up transformer, step-down transformer, power transformer.

### Examples

- A transformer near our street lowers the voltage for houses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x1)
- Phone chargers contain a small transformer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x2)
- Never climb fences around electricity transformers — it is very dangerous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x3)
- My brother collects Transformers toys. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x4)
- A step-up transformer raises the voltage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x5)
- Many chatbots are built on a kind of program called a transformer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Verb: transform. Safety: substations and transformers carry deadly voltages; stay out and never fetch a ball from inside the fence.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «transformer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«transformer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/transformer.html) on Mova free.