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
A figure of speech in which letters or syllables are transposed, as You occupew my pie [py], instead of You occupy my pew; daggle-trail for draggle-tail, etc
the process by which a new word is formed by transposing the letters, sounds, or syllables in an older word "Bird," an English word derived from the Old English word "brid" by the process of metathesis See also: anaptyxis, dissimilation, epenthesis, haplology, paragoge