Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metathesis

2 senses of metathesis

Sense 1
metathesis -- (a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence)
       => linguistic process -- (a process involved in human language)

Sense 2
double decomposition, double decomposition reaction, metathesis -- (a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB))
       => chemical reaction, reaction -- ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water")