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metathesis
 
Noun metathesis has 2 senses
  1. metathesis - a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
    --1 is a kind of     linguistic process
  2. double decomposition, double decomposition reaction, metathesis - a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
    --2 is a kind of chemical reaction, reaction
    --2 has particulars: double replacement reaction
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