metathesis

• Substantiv, das einen Prozess der Umstellung oder des Austauschs bezeichnet; in der Linguistik die Umstellung von Lauten oder Silben in einem Wort, in der Chemie eine Reaktion, bei der Teile zweier Verbindungen ausgetauscht werden und neue Verbindungen entstehen.

A noun referring to a process of transposition or exchange, used in linguistics for the rearrangement of sounds or syllables within a word, and in chemistry for a reaction where parts of two compounds are swapped to form new compounds.

1. Linguistic transpositionC2formal

   The transposition of sounds, syllables, or letters within a word, or words within a sentence.

   Metathese

   • The word 'ask' was historically pronounced 'aks' due to metathesis.
   • Metathesis is common in many languages, such as in the Spanish word 'palabra' from Latin 'parabola'.
   • In English, 'comfortable' is often pronounced 'comfterble' because of metathesis.

   Synonymeinterchangepermutationreversalshifttransposition

2. C2formalscientific

   A chemical reaction between two compounds where parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB + CD = AD + CB).

   Metathese

   • The reaction between silver nitrate and sodium chloride is a classic example of metathesis.
   • Metathesis reactions are fundamental in organic chemistry for creating new carbon-carbon bonds.
   • The chemist studied the metathesis process to synthesize a new polymer.