Main entry: transposition
Definition: (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
Main entry: reversal, transposition
Definition: the act of reversing the order or place of
Main entry: transposition
Definition: (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
Usage: he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition
Main entry: transposition
Definition: (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
Main entry: transposition
Definition: (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
Main entry: transposition, substitution, switch, replacement, permutation
Definition: an event in which one thing is substituted for another
Usage: the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
Main entry: heterotaxy, transposition
Definition: any abnormal position of the organs of the body