transposition

Speech parts

1. transposition - Noun

2. transposition - Verb

Meaning

The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.

The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.

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.

A change of a composition into another key.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reversal exchange transfer shift switch displacement substitution inversion permutation interchange alteration relocation rearrangement transference swap
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Antonyms

herald still put remain continue failure
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Hypernyms

playing computing calculation computation mutation fluctuation

Phrases with the word

transposition cipher

Examples

Up to Descartes' time, and particularly during the Middle Ages, it had always been agreed that philosophy consisted in a transposition of reality into conceptual terms. Etienne Gilson

he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition Source: Internet

Anagramming the transposition does not work because of the substitution. Source: Internet

All of the known temperate phages employ one of only three different systems for their lysogenic cycle: lambda-like integration/excision, Mu-like transposition or the plasmid-like partitioning of phage N15. Source: Internet

Class II (DNA transposons) The cut-and-paste transposition mechanism of class II TEs does not involve an RNA intermediate. Source: Internet

A stronger way of constructing a mixed alphabet is to perform a columnar transposition on the ordinary alphabet using the keyword, but this is not often done. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

transposed transposer transposing transposition cipher transpositional transpositionally