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"Metathesis" Definition

noun

Chemistry Double decomposition.
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.
a change of place or condition as.
Transposition of two phonemes in a word (as in the development of from or the pronunciation \ˈpər-tē\ for ).
A chemical reaction in which different kinds of molecules exchange parts to form other kinds of molecules .

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