Download the app
educalingo
metathetic

Meaning of "metathetic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF METATHETIC

ˌmetəˈθetɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METATHETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metathetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES METATHETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of metathetic in the English dictionary

The definition of metathetic in the dictionary is of or relating to the transposition of two sounds or letters in a word.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METATHETIC

alphabetic · chemosynthetic · cosmothetic · cryptaesthetic · dysaesthetic · dysthetic · electrophoretic · empathetic · epithetic · ferromagnetic · kinesthetic · nonaesthetic · parenthetic · pathogenetic · pharmacokinetic · photosynthetic · preanesthetic · radiesthetic · somesthetic · telaesthetic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METATHETIC

metatag · metatarsal · metatarsi · metatarsus · metate · metatheoretical · metatheory · metatherian · metatheses · metathesis · metathesise · metathesize · metathetical · metathetically · metathoraces · metathoracic · metathorax · metatungstic · metavanadic · metavanadic acid

WORDS THAT END LIKE METATHETIC

aesthetic · anaesthetic · anesthetic · antithetic · apathetic · athletic · biosynthetic · esthetic · general anaesthetic · kinaesthetic · local anaesthetic · parasympathetic · pathetic · prophetic · prosthetic · semisynthetic · sympathetic · synesthetic · synthetic · thetic · unsympathetic

Synonyms and antonyms of metathetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metathetic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF METATHETIC

Find out the translation of metathetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of metathetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metathetic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

复分解
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

metátesis
570 millions of speakers
en

English

metathetic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

metathetic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنادلي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

metathetic
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

metatética
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

metathetic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

métathétique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Metatetik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Metathese
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

メタセシス
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

metathetic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Metathetic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

metathetic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

metathetic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मेटाटेटिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

metathetic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

metathetic
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

metathetic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

metathetic
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

metathetic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

metathetic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metathetic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

metatetisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metathetic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metathetic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METATHETIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of metathetic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «metathetic».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metathetic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METATHETIC»

Discover the use of metathetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metathetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Signals, Sound, and Sensation
Exercise 1 1 : Prothetic and metathetic continue Stevens (1966) drew the distinction between prothetic and metathetic quantities. Prothetic continua are associated with intensity, magnitude, or degree. Metathetic continua are described by a ...
William M. Hartmann, 1997
2
Aphasiology: Special Issue Remembering Frederic L. Darley
In particular. a given dimension to be rated can be considered as either prothetic or metathetic (Stevens. 1975). A prothetic dimension varies in magnitude or quantity and may be described as an additive, quantitative dimension (loudness is ...
Robert T. Wertz, Joseph R. Duffy, 2001
3
Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology
Stevens (1957) and Stevens and Galanter (1957) distinguish between two kinds of perceptual continua, prothetic and metathetic. Prothetic continua are concerned with "how much" and represent dimensions on which discriminations involve ...
Jon E. Roeckelein, 1998
4
Psychology: Pythagoras to Present
In brief, Stevens proposed that stimuli actually lie on two continua, which he called prothetic and metathetic. Prothetic continua are those in which a change in physical stimulus value may plausibly be viewed as an increase or decrease in ...
John C. Malone, 2009
5
Aristotle's Theory of Predication
[51 b25-7] Further he says that the metathetic predicate, 'is not-equal', (elvai /ir) loov) has a subject underlying it, while "is not equal" (/ir) dvca low) does not. Aristotle then compares the metathetic predicate ('not-equal') to the privative ...
Allan Bäck, 2000
6
Intelligibility in Speech Disorders: Theory, Measurement, ...
Scaling prothetic vs. metathetic continua Many important theoretical and methodological issues have been raised over the years concerning selection of appropriate scaling procedures for the measurement of different variables. Yet one issue ...
Raymond D. Kent, 1992
7
كتاب المناظرات:
He also asked me about contradiction and opposition and metathetic propositions. I said: 'With regard to the metathetic propositions, they are those that undergo a change from their first definition, so that whereas they are defined, they become ...
Wilfred Madelung, Paul E. Walker, 2001
8
Psychophysics
Sensory continua fall into two classes, metathetic and prothetic. The one concerns position or quality; the other quantity. Most continua belong to the quantitative prothetic class. The evidence shows that partition procedures (such as those of ...
Stanley Smith Stevens, 1975
9
Ergonomics: Skill, displays, controls, and mental workload
The main point of this distinction is that in the metathetic domain, the JND are subjectively equal over the continuum; whereas in the prothetic domain, the JND grow rapidly in subjective size as we go up the scale of the continuum.
Neville Moray, 2005
10
Correspondence Between Nasalance Scores and Nasality Ratings ...
During perception of a metathetic stimulus, a new excitation is exchanged for an excitation that has been removed (Stevens, 1975). Pitch would be an example of a metathetic stimulus. That is, as pitch changes, there is a perceptual change in ...
Tami Urbani Brancamp, 2008
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Metathetic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/metathetic>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
EN