Associations to the word «Metathesis»

METATHESIS, noun. (phonetics) (prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.

METATHESIS, noun. (inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts.

METATHESIS, noun. (organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.

METATHESIS, noun. A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence.

METATHESIS, noun. A chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB).