What's the difference between metathesis and metathetic?

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.

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.

Metathetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Metathetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper describes the application of Preferred State Theory to provide quantitative predictions of a variety of psychological effects, including the prothetic-metathetic distinction, and the expected form of the matching functions between physical stimuli and the estimates produced by magnitude and category subjective estimation methods.
  • (2) The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine through psychophysical comparison of scaling data whether speech naturalness is a prothetic or a metathetic continuum, and to examine the relationship between selected acoustic characteristics of the speech of nonstutterers and treated stutterers and listeners' judgments of their speech naturalness.
  • (3) Comparison of magnitude estimation and interval scaling data indicated that speech naturalness behaves like a metathetic continuum, suggesting that either scaling procedure is valid for the quantification of this dimension.
  • (4) With the first three compounds, the anomalies were due to metathetical exchange of the halide anion between the compound and the matrix.
  • (5) It was hypothesized on the basis of the theory that subjects would process short geographical distances as a metathetic continuum and longer distances as a prothetic continuum.
  • (6) In contrast to previous studies, the results clearly indicate that the physical stimulus-psychological response magnitude relationship for location and extent movements is best described by a metathetic continuum.

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