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Definition of Metatheses
1. metathesis [n] - See also: metathesis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metatheses
Literary usage of Metatheses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Chemistry: By George Rantoul White by George Rantoul White (1894)
"Changes of substance, that is, chemical changes, may be divided into three classes,
analyses, syntheses, and metatheses. Changes of Substance by Analyses. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1832)
"In etymology, I strongly object to such metatheses or inversions as that of ...
If those metatheses and strained senses were admitted, it would be easy to ..."
3. Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia by William Churchill (1916)
"In the first group of metatheses which we encounter in this suite we find the
change applied to the stem lanu. This will be represented in the record scheme ..."
4. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbecher (1918)
"No such extensive metatheses were found, nor have been found, in any organism
that I know of, but there is a firm association of these agents in the gametes ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society by Cambridge Philological Society (1884)
"In like manner Brugmann distinguishes gradual and progressive substitutions of
sound from metatheses which take place by sudden transition. ..."
6. Pharmaceutical and Chemical Problems and Exercises: With Explanatory Text by Oscar Oldberg (1907)
"No changes of atomic combining value occur in any metathesis. The following
reactions are metatheses or double decompositions ..."
7. Inorganic General, Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Theoretical and by Oscar Oldberg (1900)
"Dissociation, synthesis, and metathesis are common reactions, but the most common
are metatheses. 362. Dissociation effected by the aid of heat is often a ..."
8. Elements of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis by George Chapman Caldwell (1894)
"metatheses may take place, and doubtless do when there is no plain evidence thereof
... As a result of the metatheses made use of in analytical work, ..."
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