Meaning of METAMORPHIC
| Pronunciation: | | `metu'morfik
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- [adj] characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance
- [adj] of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks); "metamorphic stage"; "marble is a metamorphic rock that takes a high polish"
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| | Synonyms: | | changed, epimorphic, hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous, heterometabolic, heterometabolous, holometabolic, holometabolous, metamorphous, metamorphous |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonmetamorphic | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Met`a*mor"phic\, a. [See {Metamorphosis}.]
1. Subject to change; changeable; variable.
2. Causing a change of structure.
3. (Geol.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain
changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since
their original deposition; -- especially applied to the
recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone
through the influence of heat and pressure, after which
they are called metamorphic rocks.
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| | Related Terms: | | able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable, alterative, anabolic, catabolic, catalytic, changeable, checkered, diversiform, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, manifold, many-sided, metabolic, metamorphotic, metastatic, mobile, modifiable, movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic, polymorphous, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient, transitory, variable |
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