English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of Metathesis

metathesis

/ वर्ण, ध्वनि स्थानान्तरण, विपर्यास

English Dictionary:

1. Metathesis

[n.]

- Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
- A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
- The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.