transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈal-kə-mē ]
noun
Etymology: Middle English alkamie, alquemie, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French alkimie, from Medieval Latin alchymia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al the + kīmiyā' alchemy, from Late Greek chēmeia
Date: 14th century
1. : a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
2. : a power or process of transforming something common into something special
3. : an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
• al·chem·i·cal -mi-kəl also al·chem·ic al-ˈke-mik adjective
• al·chem·i·cal·ly -mi-k(ə-)lē adverb