metamorphic

Meanings

Adjective

• Characterised by or exhibiting a change in form or character.
• Pertaining to metamorphism; having been structurally altered as a result of, or resulting from, exposure to intense heat and/or pressure (at the contact zone between colliding plates, for example).
• Pertaining to metamorphosis.
• Of or relating to the Metamorphic Technique, a form of massage influenced by reflexology.

Noun

• A rock that has been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure.

Origin

• From metamorphosis + -ic.