Metathesis

Definition:

  • (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.

Compare metathesis with other words:

metatheses vs. metathesis

metalepsy vs. metathesis

metaplasm vs. metathesis

metathesis vs. metathetical

metathesis vs. metathetic

metathesis vs. swapped

group vs. metathesis

metathesis vs. substituent

breaking vs. metathesis

metathesis vs. salt

inorganic vs. metathesis

metathesis vs. word

metathesis vs. sound

metathesis vs. syllable

letter vs. metathesis

metathesis vs. transposition

frog vs. metathesis

ask vs. metathesis