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transposition
noun
1 transposition
Any abnormal position of the organs of the body.
synonym: heterotaxy.
Roget 185:
displacement,
elocation†,
transposition.
ejectment
etc.
297†;
exile
etc.
(banishment)
893;
removal
etc.
(transference)
270.
misplacement,
dislocation
etc.
61;
fish out of water.
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Roget 270:
transfer,
transference;
translocation,
elocation†;
displacement;
metastasis,
metathesis;
removal;
remotion†,
amotion†;
relegation;
deportation,
asportation†;
extradition,
conveyance,
draft,
carrying,
carriage;
convection,
conduction,
contagion;
transfer
etc.
(of property)
783.
transit,
transition;
passage,
ferry,
gestation;
portage,
porterage†,
carting,
cartage;
shoveling
etc.
v.;
vection†,
vecture†,
vectitation†;
shipment,
freight,
wafture†;
transmission,
transport,
transportation,
importation,
exportation,
transumption†,
transplantation,
translation;
shifting,
dodging;
dispersion
etc.
73;
transposition
etc.
(interchange)
148;
traction
etc.
285.
[Thing transferred]
drift.
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Polish: heterotaksja
2 transposition
An event in which one thing is substituted for another.
synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch.
Roget 148:
interchange,
exchange;
commutation,
permutation,
intermutation;
reciprocation,
transposition,
rearrangement;
shuffling;
alternation,
reciprocity;
castling
(at chess);
hocus-pocus.
interchangeableness†,
interchangeability.
recombination;
combination
etc.
48.
barter
etc.
794;
tit for tat
etc.
(retaliation)
718;
cross fire,
battledore and shuttlecock;
quid pro quo.
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Dutch: transpositie
3 transposition
genetics A kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome.
4 transposition
mathematics The transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign.
5 transposition
electricity A rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance.
6 transposition
The act of reversing the order or place of.
synonym: reversal.
Roget 218:
inversion,
eversion,
subversion,
reversion,
retroversion,
introversion;
contraposition
etc.
237†;
contrariety
etc.
14;
reversal;
turn of the tide.
overturn;
somersault,
somerset;
summerset†;
culbute†;
revulsion;
pirouette.
transposition,
transposal†,
anastrophy†,
metastasis,
hyperbaton†,
anastrophe†,
hysteron proteron [Gr.],
hypallage†,
synchysis†,
tmesis†,
parenthesis;
metathesis;
palindrome.
pronation and supination [Anat.].
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7 transposition
music Playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards.
Polish: transpozycja
Moby thesaurus: alternation, avatar, battledore and shuttlecock, catabolism, catalysis, communication, commutation, conduction, consubstantiation, contagion, convection, cooperation, counterchange, cross fire, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, displacement, dissemination, ectropion, eversion, exchange, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, give-and-take, heterotopia, import, importation, interchange, intermutation, interplay, introversion, intussusception, invagination, inversion, lex talionis, measure for measure, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutant, mutated form, mutation, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, osmosis, passage, passing over, perfusion, permutation, pronation, quid pro quo, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, reincarnation, resupination, retaliation, retroflexion, retroversion, reversal, reversing, reversion, revulsion, something for something, sport, spread, spreading, supination, tit for tat, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, transanimation, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transmogrification, transmutation, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transubstantiation, travel, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over ... show more.
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