Metamorphism Definition

mĕtə-môrfĭzəm
noun

Metamorphosis.

Webster's New World
Change in the mineralogical, structural, or textural composition of rocks under pressure, heat, chemical action, etc., which turns limestone into marble, granite into gneiss, etc.
Webster's New World

(zoology) The process by which insects development through life stages -- as, 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.

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Other Word Forms of Metamorphism

Noun

Singular:
metamorphism
Plural:
metamorphisms

Origin of Metamorphism

  • From metamorphosis +"Ž -ism, after French métamorphisme.

    From Wiktionary

  • metamorph(ic) –ism

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Metamorphism Sentence Examples

  • They are typical products of "regional" metamorphism, and are in nearly all cases older than the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks.

  • Extensive subsequent metamorphism has been produced by the invasion of great masses of granite.

  • Not only is it extensive in area, but the stratigraphic break is very great, as shown by (I) the excess of metamorphism of the lower group as compared with the upper, and (2) the amount of erosion suffered by the older group before the deposition of the younger.

  • Tremolite-schist and anthophyllite-schist are in nearly all cases the representatives of the ultra-basic igneous rocks such as peridotite in regions of high metamorphism.

  • Archeozoic (Archean) Group.The oldest group of rocks, called the Archean, was formerly looked upon, at least in a tentative way, as the original crtist of the earth or its downward extension, much altered by the processes of metamorphism.

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