100 divided by 2 equals 50
100 divided by .2 equals 500

Meta. “An ancient Greek word meaning “beyond”, “after” or “behind”“
Morphe. Another Greek word, meaning “form, outward appearance; nature, character“.

So. Metamorphosis can be interpreted as both the process of changing shape and/or nature and the result of that process.
My point being that we are the ones who make the connections. Who connect the dots…

We are the ones who have noticed the link between the caterpillar and the butterfly.
We are the ones who have taken the notion of division way further than its very nature.

How much (natural) sense does it make to divide something to a divisor which is smaller than 1 ?!?
It is nevertheless possible… arithmetically speaking… we do it by carrying the rule into the ‘sub-unitary realm’ … without giving much thought to the ‘metaphysical’ aspects of the ‘operation’.
To the fact that by dividing something to a sub-unitary divisor we actually transform division into multiplication!

We do that by applying a rule beyond, also known as ‘meta’, its natural domain.