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metabasis.

A change from one subject to another.

9 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A change from one subject to another.

    rhetoric
  2. Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.

Where this word comes from

From Late Latin metabasis, from Ancient Greek μετάβασις (metábasis, “a change, a transition”), from μεταβαίνω (metabaínō, “I cross”), from μετά (metá) and βαίνω (baínō, “I move”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.

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