Definition of metamorphic
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: of or relating to metamorphosis
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His paintings were often an emotional response to metamorphic periods of his time, such as the Enlightenment.
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The British actress Andrea Riseborough is one of those metamorphic changelings so different from film to film, role to role, that few people realize she’s even out there.
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All around him, eras of the country’s past are shoved together like layers of metamorphic rock.
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In Kansas and Oklahoma, the faults are in deep igneous and metamorphic rocks just beneath the sandstone layer used by the injection wells.
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Rising beauty star Issa Rae continues to flex the versatility of her metamorphic good looks.
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As more people come here, seeking opportunity, the city will continue its metamorphic change, gaining some things while losing others.
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This archipelago of five large islands and many small ones stretches for 100 miles, and is characterized by steep-sided mountains of ancient metamorphic gneiss and quartzite, rising up from the sea.
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By the time the storms ended, two massive craters had been scoured into the metamorphic rock.
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First Known Use of metamorphic
1816
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: formed by the action of pressure, heat, and water that results in a more compact form
- a metamorphic rock
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