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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
playing (the act of playing a musical instrument)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Derivation:
transpose (change key)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of reversing the order or place of
Synonyms:
reversal; transposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
reordering (a rearrangement in a different order)
Derivation:
transpose (change the order or arrangement of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
Example:
he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
rearrangement (changing an arrangement)
Domain category:
electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
calculation; computation; computing (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)
Domain category:
algebra (the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations)
Derivation:
transpose (transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
chromosomal mutation; genetic mutation; mutation ((genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Sense 6
Meaning:
An event in which one thing is substituted for another
Example:
the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
Synonyms:
permutation; replacement; substitution; switch; transposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
fluctuation; variation (an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Any abnormal position of the organs of the body
Synonyms:
heterotaxy; transposition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("transposition" is a kind of...):
abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)
