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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Metamorphic

/mĕtˌ-əm-ôr'-fĭk/ · Met·a·mor·phic · IPA /ˌmɛt.əˈmɔɹ.fɪk/
01 a. Subject to change; changeable; variable.
  1. 1.
    Subject to change; changeable; variable.
  2. 2.
    Causing a change of structure.
  3. 3.
    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.(Geol.)