TRANSPOSITION

(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
(noun) the act of reversing the order or place of
synonyms : reversal
(noun) (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"
(noun) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
(noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
synonyms : permutation , replacement , substitution , switch
(noun) any abnormal position of the organs of the body
synonyms : heterotaxy

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