(n.) Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
(n.) A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
(n.) The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mechanistic and synthetic studies in organometallic chemistry have provided considerable insight into olefin metathesis and Ziegler-Natta polymerization.
(2) It's called metathesis , and it's a very common, perfectly natural process.
(3) New homogeneous olefin metathesis catalysts based on high oxidation state transition metals have opened new opportunities in polymer synthesis by providing unprecedented control in ring-opening polymerization of cyclic alkenes.
(4) The sequential nature of substitution errors was further analyzed by tallying and classifying errors as anticipatory (prepositioning), reiterative (postpositioning), or metathesis.