Reform means to change, usually a reversion to what is perceived to be a pure original state. It has been used for any change thought to be positive, however.

Reform can refer to:

In politics:

• Reform movement, a generic term for various social and political movements.
• Reform Movement , a list of specific organizations known as the Reform Movement.
• Non-reformist Reform, reform which is attentive to immediate social needs and at the same time moves toward further gains, and eventually, wholesale transformation.
• Reform Party, a list of parties calling themselves the Reform Party or variants thereof.
• Reform Act, a common name for electoral-reform bills in the United Kingdom; they are usually differentiated by their year.
• Reform , a think-tank in the United Kingdom that promotes deregulation, competition in UK public services, and a low-tax economy.
• Reforming Movement, a French centrist political group created in 1972.
• La Reforma, a period of liberal reforms in Mexico after 1855.

In religion:

• Protestant Reformation
• Reform , an evangelical organisation within the Anglican Church.
• Wesleyan Reform Union, an independent group of Methodists in the United Kingdom.
• Counter-Reformation
• Reform Judaism, a major denomination of Judaism with principles influenced by the Enlightenment.

In chemistry:

• Catalytic reforming, a process that converts the hydrocarbons in various oil refinery naphthas into higher octane hydrocarbons for use as components of gasoline.
• Steam reforming, also called hydrogen reforming or catalytic oxidation, a method of producing hydrogen from hydrocarbons

Reform can also refer to:

• Reform, Alabama, a town in western Alabama.
• In Japan, "reform" is a wasei-eigo term referring to renovation.

See also

• Reformation

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