A transposition is a permutation which swaps two elements of a set and leaves all other elements unchanged
Changing the key of a composition to another Can be done chromatically or diatonically In music writing programs and sequencers can also be done by interval
An insulator specially designed to accommodate two separate line wires and be able to "transpose" or swap them The wire that started on the left would end up on the right and visa verse This was required to reduce the crosstalk that resulted when wires were run parallel to each other
Transposing two units of text means putting each one into the place formerly occupied by the other There are Emacs commands to transpose two adjacent characters, words, balanced expressions (q v ) or lines (see section L 2 Transposing Text)
(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"
an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
The changing of key or tonal center Sometimes, singers will transpose a song they want to sing so that the notes fit more comfortably in their range Sometimes, composers use transposition in the middle of a piece, so that the tonal center changes Usually, however, the original tonal center returns by the end of a piece
In the Augustinian tradition, the method whereby we try to imagine the words of scripture being spoken directly to us See also Projection
(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 any abnormal position of the organs of the body