to perform or write down music at a different pitch from the original composition; a transposing instrument is one that sounds a different note from the actual written note
A function that allows you to shift the entire keyboard up and down a key Usually, the transposition is done in semitones (or one note in a key; ie, +1 transposition would make a C a C#, a C# a D, etc )
put (a piece of music) into another key transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed
To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions
If you transpose two things, you reverse them or put them in each other's place. Many people inadvertently transpose digits of the ZIP code. = reverse + transposition trans·po·si·tion His pen name represented the transposition of his initials and his middle name
If you transpose something from one place or situation to another, you move it there. Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next = transfer + transposition transpositions trans·po·si·tion a transposition of `Macbeth' to third century BC China
a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?" put (a piece of music) into another key transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality