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Metamorphic

metamorphic

1. Subject to change; changeable; variable.

2. Causing a change of structure.

3. (Science: geology) 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.

See: metamorphosis.


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