transposition Meaning and Definition

1. n. (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards

2. n. the act of reversing the order or place of

3. n. (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance

4. n. (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign

5. n. (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome

6. n. an event in which one thing is substituted for another

7. n. any abnormal position of the organs of the body