noun : TRANSPOSITION
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) any abnormal position of the organs of the body ;
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2. (
) an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" ;
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3. (
) (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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4. (
) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign ;
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5. (
) (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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6. (
) the act of reversing the order or place of ;
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7. (
) (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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