Usually means: Change in rocks under pressure.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. metamorphism: Merriam-Webster
  2. metamorphism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metamorphism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metamorphism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metamorphism: Vocabulary.com
  6. metamorphism: Wordnik
  7. metamorphism: Wiktionary
  8. metamorphism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. metamorphism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. metamorphism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. metamorphism: Dictionary.com
  12. Metamorphism (disambiguation), Metamorphism (geology), Metamorphism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Metamorphism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. metamorphism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. metamorphism: Rhymezone
  16. Metamorphism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. metamorphism: FreeDictionary.org
  18. metamorphism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. metamorphism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Metamorphism (geology), metamorphism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. metamorphism: Natural History Terms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metamorphism: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metamorphism)

noun:  (geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
noun:  (zoology) 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.
noun:  (by extension) Any dramatic change from one thing to another

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