metathesis
1. a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence • Hypernyms: linguistic process 2. a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB) • Syn: double decomposition, double decomposition reaction • Hypernyms: chemical reaction, reaction • Hyponyms: double replacement reaction
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