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# transformer

«transformer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a device that changes the voltage of electricity, making…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a transformer, transformers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A transformer is a device that changes the voltage of electricity, making it higher or lower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#m1)

2) Anything that changes something else can be called a transformer. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#m4)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x1)
- Phone chargers contain a small transformer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x2)
- Never climb fences around electricity transformers — it is very dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x3)
- My brother collects Transformers toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/#x4)
- A step-up transformer raises the voltage. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Near your town, transformers in a humming substation turn the voltage down so it is safe enough to use in homes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transformer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transformer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.