- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Subject to change; changeable; variable.
- (a.) Causing a change of structure.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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