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How to pronounce metathesis in English?

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Synonyms double decomposition, double decomposition reaction
Type of chemical reaction, reaction
Has types double replacement reaction
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Type of linguistic process

Examples of metathesis

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These underwent metathesis to forms which became Modern English third and thirteen.
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Catalytic Z-selective olefin cross-metathesis for natural product synthesis.
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There are also morphophonemic changes, such as deletion, alternation and metathesis.
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Catalytic olefin metathesis transforms simple molecules into complex ones.
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In 1990, Schrock produced the first efficient metal-compound catalyst for metathesis.
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Mechanistic insights into the ruthenium-catalysed diene ring-closing metathesis reaction.
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This underwent metathesis to wroht, which became Modern English wrought.
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Metathesis-a sound change that alters the order of phonemes in a word.
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Lunfardo, an argot of Spanish from Buenos Aires, is fond of vesre, metathesis of syllables.
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  • A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
  • Double decomposition: a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
  • Metathesis is a molecular process involving the exchange of bonds between the two reacting chemical species, which results in the creation of products with similar or identical bonding affiliations. ...
  • Metathesis (/mu0259u02C8tu00E6u03B8u0259su026As/; from Greek u03BCu03B5u03C4u03ACu03B8u03B5u03C3u03B9u03C2, from u03BCu03B5u03C4u03B1u03C4u03AFu03B8u03B7u03BCu03B9 "I put in a different order"; Latin: tru0101nspositiu014D) is the re-arranging of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a sentence. Most commonly it refers to the switching of two or more contiguous sounds, known as adjacent metathesis or local metathesis:
  • (metathetical) exhibiting metathesis
  • The process by which a new word is formed by transposing the letters, sounds, or syllables in an older word. "Bird," an English word derived from the Old English word "brid" by the process of metathesis. See also: anaptyxis, dissimilation, epenthesis, haplology, paragoge.
  • Here, a catalytic process in which two olefins undergo a pairwise exchange of components on either end of their double bonds
  • The transposition of two sounds in speech or spelling. This tendency often catches students of Middle English off guard, since they might encounter the spelling brid for bird or hwale for whale.
  • Refers to a change in the order of sounds. Hros, frist, thridde, an bridd, horse, first, third and bird. In these words a consonant-/r/-vowel-consonant sequence changed to a consonant-vowel-/r/-consonant sequence. ...