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noun
The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
The process by which insects develop through life stages, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Any dramatic change from one thing to another
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: geological process, geologic process
Narrower terms: anamorphism, epigenesis, katamorphism
History
From metamorphosis + -ism, after French métamorphisme.
