metastrophen.

Brit.

/mᵻˈtastrəfi/, U.S.

/məˈtæstrəfi/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μεταστροϕή.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μεταστροϕή change from one thing to another < μετα- meta- prefix + στροϕή turning (see strophe n.). Compare metastrophic adj.

rare.

1. Radical or fundamental change or transformation.

ΚΠ

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 93 The Town suffering a metastrophe, change of name as well as nature, was ordered to be called..Borgo Maria.

1908 A. Upward New Word 200 That is to say Metastrophe... I mean not growth and decay, but growth turning into decay, and decay turning into growth.

1960 Jrnl. Philos. 57 457 So fundamental does the notion of ‘conversion’ become..that..the success of the entire educational enterprise depends upon the very metastrophe of attention to ultimate reality.

†2. Crystallography. The correspondence between like portions of the surface of a crystal when rotated about its axis of symmetry. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 99 A solid figure is symmetrical to an axis when every radius vector moving in a plane perpendicular to the axis and meeting a point of the figure would also meet corresponding points at the same distances from the axis at each revolution... The aspect of such a solid figure will not therefore be changed by a revolution of the solid round this axis.., and any portion of its surface so revolving will move into a position in which it will be congruent with another portion of the surface entirely corresponding to it... Congruence of this kind will be termed metastrophe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metastrophe
释义	metastrophen. Brit. /mᵻˈtastrəfi/, U.S. /məˈtæstrəfi/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μεταστροϕή. Etymology: < ancient Greek μεταστροϕή change from one thing to another < μετα- meta- prefix + στροϕή turning (see strophe n.). Compare metastrophic adj. rare. 1. Radical or fundamental change or transformation. ΚΠ 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 93 The Town suffering a metastrophe, change of name as well as nature, was ordered to be called..Borgo Maria. 1908 A. Upward New Word 200 That is to say Metastrophe... I mean not growth and decay, but growth turning into decay, and decay turning into growth. 1960 Jrnl. Philos. 57 457 So fundamental does the notion of ‘conversion’ become..that..the success of the entire educational enterprise depends upon the very metastrophe of attention to ultimate reality. †2. Crystallography. The correspondence between like portions of the surface of a crystal when rotated about its axis of symmetry. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 99 A solid figure is symmetrical to an axis when every radius vector moving in a plane perpendicular to the axis and meeting a point of the figure would also meet corresponding points at the same distances from the axis at each revolution... The aspect of such a solid figure will not therefore be changed by a revolution of the solid round this axis.., and any portion of its surface so revolving will move into a position in which it will be congruent with another portion of the surface entirely corresponding to it... Congruence of this kind will be termed metastrophe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1655
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