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METATHESIS
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Irregular inflected form: metatheses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
Synonyms:
double decomposition; double decomposition reaction; metathesis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("metathesis" is a kind of...):
chemical reaction; reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metathesis"):
double replacement reaction (a chemical reaction between two compounds where the positive ion of one compound is exchanged with the positive ion of another compound)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("metathesis" is a kind of...):
linguistic process (a process involved in human language)
