metathesis

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Transposition within a word of letters, sounds, or syllables, as in the change from Old English brid to modern English bird or in the confusion of modren for modern.

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Double displacement.

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In grammar, transposition, more especially of the letters, sounds, or syllables of a word, as in the case of Anglo-Saxon ācsian, ās-cian, English ax, ask; Anglo-Saxon brid, English bird.

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In surgery, a change in place of a morbid substance; an operation removing a morbific agent from one part to another, as in couching for cataract

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In logic, same as conversion.

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Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word

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A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.

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The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals.

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the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks/

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the double decomposition of inorganic salts