Defenition of the word metathesis

• Defenition of the word metathesis

  • a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds
  • a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
  • a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)

Synonyms for the word metathesis

• • double decomposition

Hyponyms for the word metathesis

• • double replacement reaction

Hypernyms for the word metathesis

• • chemical reaction
  • linguistic process
  • reaction

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