Definitions for transposition

Definitions for (noun) transposition

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


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