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Met`a*mer"ic*al*ly, adv. In a
metameric manner.

Me*tam"er*ism (?), n.
1. (Biol.) The symmetry of a metameric
structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of
metameres.

2. (Chem.) The state or quality of
being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric
compounds.

Met`a*mor"phic (?), a. [See
Metamorphosis.] 1. Subject to change;
changeable; variable.

2. Causing a change of structure.

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.

Met`a*mor"phism (?), n. (Geol.)
The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which
the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by
heat, pressure, etc.


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