It had taken some time for him to realize he was to hang it around his neck, but once it was in place and in contact with his hide, the various grunts and clickings this strange alien used for speech were readily transformed into images and contacts in his mind.

Many of our peace-time tools are readily transformed into powerful engines of destruction.

By use of the per-unit system, model quantities could be readily transformed into the actual system quantities of voltage, current, power or impedance.

It can also be readily transformed by dehydration into dimethyl ether, a diesel fuel substitute with a cetane number of 55.

By the duality principle of order theory, every statement about suprema is thus readily transformed into a statement about infima.

Acridine combines readily with alkyl iodides to form alkyl acridinium iodides, which are readily transformed by the action of alkaline potassium ferricyanide to N-alkyl acridones.

This is the artifice practised by Iago in the famous scene of Shakespeare; and every spectator is sensible, that Othello's jealousy acquires additional force from his preceding impatience, and that the subordinate passion is here readily transformed into the predominant one.

First, these microbes tend to be highly selective in their dechlorination, with lower chlorinated biphenyls being readily transformed, and with preference to dechlorination in the para and meta positions (this is an advantage however, as ortho dechlorination would transform noncoplanar PCBs into dioxin-like coplanar ones).

One form of energy can often be readily transformed into another; for instance, a battery, from chemical energy to electric energy; a dam: gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy of moving water (and the blades of a turbine) and ultimately to electric energy through an electric generator.

This bit of park had just enough hint of wilderness to be readily transformed in imagination into prairie, canyon, rain forest, river delta, open sea.