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transposition

/ transposition /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
Type of:
playing
Derived:
transpose
Domain:
music
noun Sense 2
the act of reversing the order or place of
Type of:
reordering
Derived:
permute commute transpose
noun Sense 3
(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
"he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition"
Type of:
rearrangement
Domain:
electricity
noun Sense 4
(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity form one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
Type of:
calculation computation computing
Derived:
transpose
Domain:
algebra
noun Sense 5
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
Type of:
mutation genetic mutation chromosomal mutation
Domain:
genetics genetic science
noun Sense 6
any abnormal position of the organs of the body
Type of:
abnormality abnormalcy abnormal condition
noun Sense 7
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
Type of:
variation fluctuation
Derived:
trade swap swop switch switch over
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
7
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
24
Times Searched
2
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playing reordering rearrangement calculation computation computing mutation genetic mutation chromosomal mutation abnormality abnormalcy abnormal condition