Used in electrical and engineering contexts to describe equipment.

Technical Usage

Refers to a component that specifically changes electrical current voltage.

Specific Function

Transformers also provide safety by isolating circuits.

Safety Device

Used metaphorically to indicate radical change or influence.

Metaphorical Sense

Applies to various fields, not just political figures.

Beyond Politics

Refers to fictional characters known for changing shape.

Pop Culture Reference

In 'Transformers', the characters are intelligent alien beings, not just robots.

Not Just Robots

 The problem is that unless we do something about it, that is the way the world will always be. So why should you care about this? Right? I mean, we're facing some rather significant problems in the world just at present, what does it really matter if I can't get a job, or you're stuck watching "Transformer 17," right?

What it's like to be a...

 around on the ground on that court it's like his stage and those aren't his wings those are specially modified feathers of his breasts and flanks and he's wrapped around his body and covered his wings very much like those other transformer birds-of-paradise but the important thing here is where is the

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 and use them to make all kinds of things, like dumbbells for working out out of old car parts. But here's what's really the welding machines they use look like this, and they're made by specially coiling copper around electrical steel recovered from old transformer scrap.

What a scrapyard in...

 This led me to graffiti. I'm fascinated by graffiti. I think anybody who lives in an urban environment encounters graffiti all the time, and there's all different sorts of it. This is a picture I took on the Lower East Side of just a transformer box on the sidewalk

Chip Kidd: The art of...

 system means I mean we will use one big hydraulic motor one big alternator and one big transformer on ground to Cather many wind converter at the same time in terms of storage the use of a hydraulic system allows the conversion of the

Creating wind energy...

 And he actually came up with this concept of resonant energy transfer. But inside a standard transformer are two coils of wire. And those two coils of wire are really, really close to each other, and actually do transfer power

Eric Giler demos...

 a sink combined with a toilet, a dining table becomes a bed -- same space, a little side table stretches out to seat 10. In the winning Life Edited scheme in a render here, we combine a moving wall with transformer furniture

Less stuff, more...

 And that's a small torch from a broken flashlight. So I set up everything. As you can see, the solar panel charges the battery, and the battery supplies the power to the small indicator box. I call it a transformer.

Richard Turere: My...

 according to various traditions. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the preserver who sometimes takes on human form, and Shiva is the transformer, or Lord of the Dance. Durga is the fiercely protective divine mother.

The five major world...

 table becomes a bed same space a little side table stretches out to c10 in the winning life edited scheme and a render here we combine a moving wall with transformer furniture to get a lot out