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metathesis
  1. (phonetics) The transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/.
  2. (inorganic chemistry) The double decomposition of inorganic salts.
  3. (organic chemistry) The breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped.
  4. Examples:
    1. “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.”
      “The Shell Higher Olefin Process also uses metathesis technology to convert ethene to detergent range molecules.”
metatheses
  1. plural of metathesis
  2. Examples:
    1. “Stress errors and phoneme substitutions or metatheses not attributable to dialect or articulation, however, were considered incorrect.”
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