Metathesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. Chemistry Double decomposition.
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  • n. the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/
  • n. the double decomposition of inorganic salts
  • n. the breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In grammar, transposition, more especially of the letters, sounds, or syllables of a word, as in the case of Anglo-Saxon ācsian, ās-cian, English ax, ask; Anglo-Saxon brid, English bird.
  • n. In surgery, a change in place of a morbid substance; an operation removing a morbific agent from one part to another, as in couching for cataract
  • n. In logic, same as conversion.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
  • n. a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
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    linguistic process   
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    spoonerism   
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