Metathesis

[mә'tæθәsis]

Definition

(noun.) a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence.

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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.

Checker: Virgil

Definition

n. (gram.) a change of place of the letters or syllables of a word.—adjs. Metathet′ic -al.

Checker: Mortimer