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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Structural alteration of a mineral without change of chemical composition.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In mineralogy, a change of the molecular structure of a mineral without alteration of external form or chemical constitution: a variety of pseudomorphism. See paramorph and pseudomorphism.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geology a change in the physical structure of a mineral without any chemical change

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.

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  1. para- + -morphism (Wiktionary)

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  1. paramorphosis
  1. paramorphous
  1. alteration
  1. paramorphic
  1. paramorph
  1. uralite
  1. uralitization

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