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Transduction
The word transduction has several meanings:
- In developmental psychology, transduction is reasoning from specific cases to specific cases, typically employed by children.
- In physiology, transduction is transportation of a stimuli to the nervous system.
- In genetics, transduction is the transfer of viral, bacterial, or both bacterial and viral DNA from one cell to another via bacteriophage.
- In biophysics, transduction is the conveyance of energy from one electron (a donor) to another (a receptor), at the same time that the class of energy changes.
- In machine learning, transduction is directly drawing conclusions about new data from previous data, without constructing a model.
See also: transducer
03-10-2013 05:06:04
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