If you want more information please got to TFwiki.com and type the word into the search bar and you find what you are looking for since the words are literally typed, for the most part, as they have it. Some words may not be added on there but they are used so please ask me if you are confused at all.
These are merely definitions, some may get lengthy but that is so it is easier to understand if it is a complicated term. Please enjoy and sorry for this long message before the terms, but it is needed.
If it is in parenthesis, (these thing here), it is not my own words and it is literally copied word for word from the TFwiki so none of the words, unless as stated before in parenthesis, are mine and they go to the respectful owners. They can all be found on the wiki and I have no claim on them except for the fact I am using them in this list here to help others.
Enjoy!~ ( The bold will be the Transformers/Cybertronian terms that will be used. Any questions please ask and I will answer them best I can)
Frame/ Vehicle Information:
Frame- body/ body structure can be used with this term
Frame-type-Seeker (jets), flier, car, truck, construction vehicle, emergency vehicle, motorcycle etc
Alt-mode- known as Alternate mode which means vehicle mode (jet, truck, car, etc)
Root-mode- bipedal/expressive mode (humanoid/animalistic? body)
Alt-mode/Trans-Alt-mode: designated one mode, and moving to another (EX; car-to-jet, etc)
Seekers: Flier frame-types whose alt-modes are jets—often they form trines as a hierarchy
Trine- a Seeker configuration that includes three Seekers. Example: Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker were all in a trine before SW and TC died.
Trans-scanning- is the mechanical process by which a Transformer's built-in sensors choose and examine a new alternate mode. The process of disguising themselves, camouflaging their robotic natures, is as ingrained and natural in Transformers as changing color is in chameleons. Immediately after arriving on a new world in its transition form, a Transformer begins trans-scanning to choose and generate a new exostructure/disguise appropriate to both its size/body mass and its new locale.
Beast mode- is a term that is properly used to describe a Transformer's alternate mode when the alternate mode is of the form of an animal and has organic material integrated among the Transformer's mechanical form. Transformers would often initiate the process of converting from their robot mode by vocalizing the phrase "Beast mode!" ( This is seen mainly by me in Beast Wars but i have seen this mode, for example, Rescue Bots)
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