MEANING
1. To convert energy or a physical signal from one form into another.
2. To transfer genetic material into or between cells by means of a virus.
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Words that belong together
- transduce sound into a signal
- transduce pressure
On the page
The sensor transduced pressure into an electrical signal.
A microphone transduces sound waves into a usable signal.
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Word forms
- Base
- transduce
- Past tense
- transduced
- Past participle
- transduced
- Present participle
- transducing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- transduce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are transducing
- Present perfect
- have/has transduced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been transducing
- Past
- transduced
- Past continuous
- was/were transducing
- Past perfect
- had transduced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been transducing
- Future
- will transduce
- Future continuous
- will be transducing
- Future perfect
- will have transduced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been transducing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: transduce; transduces; transduced; transduced; transducing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: transduces.
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