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Defenition of the word transposition

    • Defenition of the word transposition

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

    Synonyms for the word transposition

      • permutation
      • replacement
      • reversal
      • substitution
      • switch

    Hypernyms for the word transposition

      • abnormal condition
      • abnormalcy
      • abnormality
      • calculation
      • chromosomal mutation
      • computation
      • computing
      • fluctuation
      • genetic mutation
      • mutation
      • playing
      • rearrangement
      • reordering
      • variation

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