NOUN
- a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
- a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
How To Use metathesis In A Sentence
- This was made by metathesis of 1-ethyl - 3-methylimidazolium [emim] with Ag [BF 4] in methanol.
- I've never done an olefin metathesis reaction, which means that the trend started without me and will leave without me.
- The strontium caprylate was prepared by metathesis from sodium caprylate and strontium chloride.
- Darya Kavitskaya in Compensatory Lengthening: Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony (2002) relates her own story about perceptual metathesis on page 48 in footnote 8: "Indeed, in teaching Russian to American students, I noticed many instances of palatalization of the consonant being heard as some kind of diphthongal property of the preceding vowel, for example, [banʲa] 'bath' was misheard and pronounced as [baʲnʲa] or even [bajna]." (link here). Hey, what do ya know?...
- By the mid 1980's we had developed what I call well-defined catalysts for both the olefin and acetylene metathesis reactions that contained sterically protecting imido and/or alkoxide ligands. Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography
- Metathesis occurs in the intensive possessor suffix which displays two alternants, [ilin] and [inl-].
- So... we see that offending verbs like these did not survive intact and yet were not resolved by metathesis or epenthesis. Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you
- I became interested in dinitrogen chemistry around 1980, and polymer chemistry (first ring-opening metathesis polymerization and later olefin and acetylene polymerization) a few years after that. Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography
- Aimeri de Narbonne, from Almaric, [Footnote: A metathesis of Amalric, which is found in Anglo-Saxon.] whence Ital. The Romance of Names
- m and become ha, and cum becomes co - in Latin; gam has become gma by metathesis; and gtan has passed into - tan by phonetic corruption. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.