rearrangementn.
/ˌriːəˈreɪn(d)ʒm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriəˈreɪndʒm(ə)nt/ 1. The action or an act of rearranging; the process of becoming differently arranged; a new or different arrangement.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > fresh arrangement
rearrangement1778
the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reorganization
reorganization1751
reassortment1767
rearrangement1778
restructure1811
remaniement1825
reorg1859
reformulation1884
rejigging1884
realignment1896
restructuring1932
restructuration1939
shake-out1939
rejig1965
1778 J. Priestley Free Discuss. Doctr. Materialism ii. i. 72 The disarrangement of them [sc. the parts of matter] by death is neither the extinction, nor the annihilation of them, and the re-arrangement of them after death, is..a proper resurrection.
1815 T. Jefferson Let. 7 May in Writings (1984) 1368 He will be able readily to replace them [sc. books] in the order corresponding with the catalogue, and thus save you the immense labor which their rearrangement would otherwise require.
1863 Sat. Rev. 6 June 719 It will repay the trouble of rearrangement and fresh elaboration.
1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vi. 96 She ever caused her rearrangements to affect him as her tenderest touches.
1967 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 8 Feb. (1995) 373 The rearrangement of my effects cannot be contemplated, until I have completed my contracted work.
2007 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 22 Nov. 5 The most significant rearrangement of the American military since the end of the Cold War.
2. Chemistry. A reaction which changes the arrangement of the constituent atoms of a molecule or compound, resulting in the formation of a structural isomer; alteration of a compound or molecular structure in this way.Hofmann, Pinacol, Wittig rearrangement, etc.: see the first element.
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1860 Chem. News 30 June 26/1 They at once cease to combine with other substances; farther action of powerful agents causing decomposition or re-arrangement.
1893 Amer. Chem. Jrnl. 15 504 Further investigation has shown that..a molecular rearrangement occurs in the course of the reaction.
1947 Nucleonics Dec. 15/2 The main product of the Willgerodt reaction, phenylacetamide, is formed without rearrangement of the carbon skeleton.
1981 P. Sykes Guidebk. to Mechanism in Org. Chem. (ed. 5) v. 122 The most famous of the rearrangements in which R migrates from carbon to nitrogen is undoubtedly..the Beckmann rearrangement.
2005 Nature 9 June 746/3 The reactions include the important classes known as cycloadditions, ene reactions, Claisen rearrangements [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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