Noun
Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.
Source: Webster's dictionary15 The Mongolian forms "may suggest an original proto-form" /lʲadi/ or /ladi/ "with dissimilation or metathesis in" Proto-Mongolic (Starostin et al. 2003:224). Source: Internet
A metathesis occurs in the numeral "four". Source: Internet
The French chaise longue ("long chair") became the American " chaise lounge " by metathesis (transposition of letters and/or sounds). Source: Internet
These are derived from the syllable cluster alb undergoing metathesis within Slavic to lab and reborrowed in that form into Albanian. Source: Internet