transformer
/tɹænsˈfoɹməɹ/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
noun
A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.
noun
A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
noun
A toy in the Transformers toyline which has mechanical parts that allow it to be altered in appearance from its original form as a humanoid robot action figure to another form, usually a vehicle, depending on the toy.
noun
In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.
Example Sentences
- "While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved."
- "Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP."
- "The transformer helped machine-learning systems improve at a much faster pace, leading directly to last year’s release of ChatGPT and the attendant boom in interest around AI. (Transformers are the “T” in ChatGPT.)"
- "Privately, many at Google have bristled at criticism of its AI credentials, in particular given that it incubated the underlying technology and released it publicly in the 2017 transformers paper."
- "“It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”"
- "A Transformer may be both a robot and a plane, or a robot and a car, but not both simultaneously."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹænsˈfoɹməɹ/
- British English: /tɹænsˈfɔːmə/