Dictionary Entry
transposition
transposition is a 13-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
- 2noun
The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
- 3noun
A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.
- 4noun
A change of a composition into another key.
- 5noun
(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- 6noun
the act of reversing the order or place of
Synonyms
- 7noun
(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"
- 8noun
(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
- 9noun
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- 10noun
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
- 11noun
any abnormal position of the organs of the body
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