morphing

[mawr-fing]

noun

1. the smooth transformation of one image into another by computer, as in a motion picture.

morphing

/ ˈmɔːfɪŋ /

noun

1. a computer technique used for graphics and in films, in which one image is gradually transformed into another image without individual changes being noticeable in the process

Word History and Origins

Origin of morphing¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Word History and Origins

Origin of morphing¹

C20: from _{metamorphosis}

Example Sentences

In a now deleted social media post, Jim O'Neill, who leads the Reform group on Blackpool Council, said the party "may be morphing into something I didn't sign up for".

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Downing Street's hope is to salvage opportunity out of what was fast morphing into a crisis.

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The Bonnybridge UFO reports covered a wide spectrum of events, including a motorist describing lights in the form of a cross hovering above a road before morphing into a triangle.

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What it is to be a back row is morphing.

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L.A. was a tumbleweed boomtown whose population had doubled in one decade and quintupled in the next, morphing from village to metropolis in a generation.

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Related Words

• alter 
• modify 
• transform