Usually means: Rearrangement of sounds within words.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. metathesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. metathesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metathesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metathesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metathesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. metathesis: Wordnik
  7. metathesis: Wiktionary
  8. metathesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. metathesis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. metathesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. metathesis: Dictionary.com
  12. metathesis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Metathesis (linguistics), Metathesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Metathesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. metathesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. metathesis: Rhymezone
  17. Metathesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. metathesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. metathesis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. Metathesis: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. metathesis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. metathesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. metathesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. metathesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Metathesis: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metathesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. metathesis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. metathesis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metathesis: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metathesis: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metathesis)

noun:  (phonetics, prosody) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts.
noun:  (organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.

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