Transposition

[trænspə'zɪʃ(ə)n;trɑːns-;-nz-] or [,trænzpə'zɪʃən]

Definition

(noun.) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards.

(noun.) the act of reversing the order or place of.

(noun.) (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'.

(noun.) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign.

(noun.) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome.

(noun.) any abnormal position of the organs of the body.

Checked by Barry--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.

(n.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.

(n.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.

(n.) A change of a composition into another key.

Edited by Clare

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Transposal.

Typed by Camilla