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Transposition

noun

Any abnormal position of the organs of the body. Synonym: heterotaxy.

An event in which one thing is substituted for another. Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch.

(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome.

(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign.

(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance.

The act of reversing the order or place of. Synonym: reversal.

(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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"Transposition" Quotes from Famous Books

... not as a concept an element of Nature. The so-called infinitesimals are Nature's real, natural finites. In mathematics the infinitesimals were an analytical—an "M"—time-binding—necessity, because of our starting point. I repeat once again that this transposition of our starting point would not affect the normal mathematics for normal purposes; it would build rather a new philosophic mathematics rigorously correct where analytical facts would be also psychological facts. This new mathematics would not only give correct results but also ...

— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... literally. On the contrary, it is quite probable that weights and measures are not correct: they are quite likely to be of an artful and studied unreliability. A secret private code is often employed, necessitating the elimination or transposition of certain words, figures or letters before the whole will become intelligible and useful. If by any chance an uninitiated hand should attempt to grasp such veiled directions, failure would be certain. We confess to have employed at an early stage of our own career this same strategy ...

— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius

... of feminine endings, which is inevitable in Scandinavian blank verse, what strikes us most in this translation is its laboriousness. The language is set on end. Inversion and transposition are the devices by which the translator has managed to give Shakespeare in metrically decent lines. The proof of this is so patent that I need scarcely point out instances. But take the first seven lines of the quotation. Neither in form nor content is this bad, yet no one with a feeling for ...

— An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway • Martin Brown Ruud

... is metaphorical if we choose to be captious. Scratch the simplest expressions, and you will find the metaphor. Written words are handage, inkage and paperage; it is only by metaphor, or substitution and transposition of ideas, that we can call them language. They are indeed potential language, and the symbols employed presuppose nouns, verbs, and the other parts of speech; but for the most part it is in what we read between the ...

— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... expressed a favorable opinion on the claim of William McGarrahan to the quicksilver mine of which the New Idria had obtained possession. So a pressure was brought to bear upon the President, the result of which was the transposition of Devens and McCrary. The soldier was made Attorney-General, and the country lawyer, ignorant of military matters, was made Secretary ...

— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

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