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substitution
English
Etymology
From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?bst??tu??n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?bst??tju???n/
Noun
substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- A substitute or replacement.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- Hypernym: loan
- Hyponyms: loan coinage, loan meaning
- Coordinate term: importation
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- bustitutions
French
Etymology
From Latin substit?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.sti.ty.sj??/
Noun
substitution f (plural substitutions)
- substitution
Related terms
- substituer
Further reading
- “substitution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
substitution From the web:
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metamorphosis
English
Etymology
First attested in 1533, from Latin metamorph?sis, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (metamórph?sis), from ???? (metá, “change”) + ????? (morph?, “form”). Analyzable as meta- +? -morph +? -osis
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?t??m??f?s?s/, /?m?t?m???f??s?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m????m??f?s?s/
- (one pronunciation) Rhymes: -??s?s
- Hyphenation: met?a?mor?pho?sis
Noun
metamorphosis (countable and uncountable, plural metamorphoses)
- A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
- A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
- (biology) A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development. (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog.)
- (pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.
Derived terms
Related terms
- metamorphic
- metamorphose
- metamorphosize
- metamorphism
Translations
metamorphosis From the web:
- what metamorphosis mean
- what metamorphosis do grasshoppers have
- what's metamorphism weegy
- what metamorphosis does termite undergo
- what metamorphosis is all about
- what's metamorphosis in art
- what metamorphosis is complete
- what metamorphosis means in spanish
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