Vocabulary : Metate to Metatungstic

Metate : A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle.
Metatheses : of Metathesis
Metathesis : Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager. ;; A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body. ;; The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.
Metathetic : Alt. of Metathetical
Metathetical : Of or pertaining to metathesis.

Metathoracic : Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
Metathorax : The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Metatitanic : Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.
Metatungstate : A salt of metatungstic acid.
Metatungstic : Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

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