alchemy

alchemy definitions

noun
  • Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm. 

  • The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation. 

  • The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.