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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Kinetic metabolism; transmutation of energy.
- noun In geology, that variety of metamorphism which involves the recrys-tallization of old materials into new compounds without the necessary addition of new matter: thus, shales may be changed to mica schists.
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