English words starting with met - page 2

Meanings of Metacromion:

noun

In some mammals: a process of the spine of the scapula posterior to the acromion.

Meanings of Metacryst:

noun

A large crystal formed in a metamorphic rock by recrystallization, surrounded by a finer-grained groundmass of other metamorphic crystals; a porphyroblast.

Meanings of Metacyclic:

adjective

Of or relating to the permutation of a set of elements in a cycle; (of a group g) containing a normal subgroup n that is cyclic, such that the quotient g / n is cyclic.

noun

A metacyclic trypanosome.

Meanings of Metagalactic:

adjective

Of or relating to the (or a) metagalaxy.

Meanings of Metagalaxies:

noun

The entire system of recognized galaxies; the entire material universe and the region of space it occupies. now also (according to some theories): any of several such large-scale systems of galaxies.

Meanings of Metagalaxy:

noun

The entire system of recognized galaxies; the entire material universe and the region of space it occupies. now also (according to some theories): any of several such large-scale systems of galaxies.

Meanings of Metagastric:

adjective

In brachyuran crabs: relating to or designating a region of the dorsal carapace situated towards the posterior part of the gastric area.

Meanings of Metage:

noun

The duty paid for the official weighing of loads of coal, grain, or other material.

Usage examples:

About 1,200,000 chaldrons are consumed in middlesex and surrey; of this quantity, at least two-thir…

Meanings of Metagenesis:

noun

The alternation of generations between sexual and asexual reproduction.

Usage examples:

It is the life cycle consisting of an asexual and a sexual generation (metagenesis) of the cyclioph…

Meanings of Metagenic:

adjective

Metagenetic. also in geology: produced by metamorphism (rare).

Meanings of Metageometry:

noun

Non-euclidean geometry.

Meanings of Metagnomy:

noun

The acquisition of information by paranormal means; divination, clairvoyance.

Meanings of Metagram:

noun

A word game involving letter-substitution; specifically one in which one word is transformed into another by a series of stages, each of which involves substituting one letter to form another word.

Meanings of Metagrobolize:

verb

To puzzle, mystify, confound.

Meanings of Metakinesis:

noun

The separation of sister chromatids and their movement to opposite poles in anaphase of mitosis.

Meanings of Metakinetic:

adjective

Designating, relating to, or possessing a movable joint in the posterior portion of the skull (as between the brain case and skull roof).

Meanings of Metal:

noun

A solid material which is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity (e.g. iron, gold, silver, and aluminium, and alloys such as steel).

Usage examples:

An adjustable pole made of metal

verb

Make or mend (a road) with road metal.

Usage examples:

Several miles of the old road had been metalled with crushed stone

Meanings of Metalanguage:

noun

A form of language or set of terms used for the description or analysis of another language.

Usage examples:

You begin to worry that the metalanguage we're using just isn't up to the job, and to think that ma…

Meanings of Metalaw:

noun

A hypothetical legal code based on the principles underlying existing legal codes and designed to be applicable in a context or place (originally, space or outer space) not currently subject to legal regulation. also, more generally: any law that operates beyond and outside known laws; a second or higher order of law.

Meanings of Metaldehyde:

noun

A solid made by polymerizing acetaldehyde, used in slug pellets and as a fuel for portable stoves.

Usage examples:

Slug pellets, based on metaldehyde, are cheap and effective.

Meanings of Metaled:

verb

Make or mend (a road) with road metal.

Usage examples:

Several miles of the old road had been metalled with crushed stone

adjective

(of a road) made or mended with road metal.

Usage examples:

Visitors are asked to keep to the metalled roads

noun

A solid material which is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity (e.g. iron, gold, silver, and aluminium, and alloys such as steel)

Usage examples:

An adjustable pole made of metal

Meanings of Metalepsis:

noun

The rhetorical figure consisting in the metonymical substitution of one word for another which is itself a metonym; (more generally) any metaphorical usage resulting from a series or succession of figurative substitutions.

Meanings of Metaleptic:

adjective

Relating to or of the nature of the figure of metalepsis.

Meanings of Metaleptical:

adjective

= metaleptic (specifically in rhetoric).

Meanings of Metaleptically:

adverb

By metalepsis.