Search Result for "metamorphic":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks);
- Example: "metamorphic stage"
- Example: "marble is a metamorphic rock that takes a high polish"
[syn: metamorphic, metamorphous]
2. characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Metamorphic \Met`a*mor"phic\, a. [See Metamorphosis.] 1. Subject to change; changeable; variable. [1913 Webster] 2. Causing a change of structure. [1913 Webster] 3. (Geol.) 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 metamorphic rocks. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "metamorphic": able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable, alterative, anabolic, catabolic, catalytic, changeable, checkered, diversiform, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, manifold, many-sided, metabolic, metamorphotic, metastatic, mobile, modifiable, movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic, polymorphous, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient, transitory, variable
