Metathesis vs. Metathetic — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Metathesis and Metathetic
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Metathesis
(Linguistics) Transposition within a word of letters, sounds, or syllables, as in the change from Old English brid to modern English bird or in the confusion of modren for modern.
Metathetic
(Linguistics) Transposition within a word of letters, sounds, or syllables, as in the change from Old English brid to modern English bird or in the confusion of modren for modern.
Metathesis
(Chemistry) Double displacement.
Metathetic
(Chemistry) Double displacement.
Metathesis
The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.
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Metathetic
(linguistics) Exhibiting metathesis.
Metathesis
(inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts.
Metathetic
Of or pertaining to metathesis.
Metathesis
(organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.
Metathesis
Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
Metathesis
A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
Metathesis
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.
Metathesis
A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
Metathesis
A chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
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