Part 7000

<h1>Metamer</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met"a*mer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Metamere</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; <as>as, xylene has three <ex>metamers</ex>, viz</as>., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.</def><-- = isomer -->

<h1>Metamere</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met"a*mere</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>meta-</ets> + <ets>-mere</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Loeven's larva</er>.</def>

<h1>Metameric</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mer"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>meta-</ets> + Gr. <?/ part.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; <as>as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are <ex>metameric</ex> compounds</as>. See <er>Isomeric</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; The existence of metameric compounds is due to the different arrangement of the same constituents in the molecule.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; <as>as, <ex>metameric</ex> segmentation</as>.</def>

<h1>Metamerically</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mer"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a metameric manner.</def>

<h1>Metamerism</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Me*tam"er*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.</def>

<h1>Metamorphic</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mor"phic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Metamorphosis</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Subject to change; changeable; variable.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Causing a change of structure.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>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 <i>metamorphic</i> rocks.</def>

<h1>Metamorphism</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mor"phism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.</def>

<i>Murchison.</i>

<h1>Metamorphist</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mor"phist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.</def>

<h1>Metamorphize</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mor"phize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To metamorphose.</def>

<h1>Metamorphose</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*mor"phose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Metamorphosed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Metamorphosing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>m\'82tamorphoser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.</def>

<blockquote>And earth was <b>metamorphosed</b> into man. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Metamorphose</h1> <Xpage=917>