metamorphism

IPA: mɛtʌmˈɔrfɪzʌm

(geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
(zoology) The process by which insects develop through life stages, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
(by extension) Any dramatic change from one thing to another

Examples of "metamorphism" in Sentences

Some metasiltstone or metasandstone occurs, but it is material of very low-grade metamorphism.
These mantle rocks also show a type of metamorphism found only in conditions of very high energy release.
“Submicron magnetite grains and carbon compounds in Martian meteorite ALH84001: Inorganic, abiotic formation by shock and thermal metamorphism.”
Some geologists confine the term metamorphism to the changes involved in contact and dynamic metamorphism, and call the resulting products _metamorphic rocks_.
Rocks are not permanent in their condition, but at practically all times and places are undergoing some kind of metamorphism which tends to adapt them to their environment.
Basically, a process called metamorphism caused the basalts in Shenandoah to recrystallize with new minerals, such as chlorite, epidote, and albite, which help give the rocks their greenish hue.
It is an oil from Neem seeds, it is used as and anti fungal in gardening. .it also smells bad and drives off insects, those that do eat of it have their larval hormones messed up enough they cannot metamorphism to moths, it is also bitter, it has been used as a contraceptive in its native India.