TRANSPOSITION
\tɹanspəzˈɪʃən], \tɹanspəzˈɪʃən], \t_ɹ_a_n_s_p_ə_z_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of TRANSPOSITION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(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"
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(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
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(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity form one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
By Princeton University
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(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"
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(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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(algebra) the transfer of a quantity form one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
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(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
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The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
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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.
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A change of a composition into another key.
By Oddity Software
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The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
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The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
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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.
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A change of a composition into another key.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Act of transposing or of putting one thing in place of another: state of being transposed: a change of the order of words: (music) a change of key into a higher or lower scale.
By Daniel Lyons
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. Act of changing the places of things and putting one in place of the other ; substitution ; - removal from one place to another; reciprocal change:-in music, alteration of a composition, by scoring or performing it in a higher or lower key or pitch;-in algebra, the bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation.