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Verb
/transˈpōz/,
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transposed, past participle; transposing, present participle; transposes, 3rd person singular present; transposed, past tense;
  1. Cause (two or more things) to change places with each other
    • - the captions describing the two state flowers were accidentally transposed
  2. Transfer to a different place or context
    • - the problems of civilization are transposed into a rustic setting
  3. Write or play (music) in a different key from the original
    • - the basses are transposed down an octave
  4. Transfer (a term), with its sign changed, to the other side of an equation

  5. Change into a new form
    • - he transposed a gaffe by the mayor into a public-relations advantage
Noun
  1. A matrix obtained from a given matrix by interchanging each row and the corresponding column

  1. a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
  2. permute: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"
  3. transfer: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
  4. counterchange: cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size"
  5. transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
  6. put (a piece of music) into another key
  7. In linear algebra, the transpose of a matrix A is another matrix AT (also written A′, Atr or tA) created by any one of the following equivalent actions: * write the rows of A as the columns of AT * write the columns of A as the rows of AT * reflect A by its main diagonal (which starts from ...
  8. A transposition in chess is a sequence of moves that results in a position which may also be reached by another, more common sequence of moves. Transpositions are particularly common in opening, where a given position may be reached by different sequences of moves. ...
  9. (Transposition (cardiac)) Transposition of the great vessels (TGV) is a group of congenital heart defects (CHDs) involving an abnormal spatial arrangement of any of the primary blood vessels: superior and/or inferior vena cavae (SVC, IVC), pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins, and aorta. ...
  10. (Transposition (cryptography)) In cryptography, a transposition cipher is a method of encryption by which the positions held by units of plaintext (which are commonly characters or groups of characters) are shifted according to a regular system, so that the ciphertext constitutes a permutation ...
  11. (Transposition (law)) In European Union law transposition is a process by which the European Union's member states give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures. Transposition is typically done by either primary or secondary legislation.
  12. (Transposition (logic)) In the methods of deductive reasoning in classical logic, "transposition is the rule of inference that permits one to infer from the truth of "A implies B" the truth of "Not-B implies not-A", and conversely". ...
  13. (transposes) number sequences and confuses arithmetic signs (+,-,x,/,=)
  14. (TRANSPOSAL) the same as an ANAGRAM, but the words in a transposal don't have to relate in meaning.
  15. (Transposing) Changing the key of a melody while keeping its intervallic relationship intact
  16. (transposition) the act of moving the relative pitch of a piece of music that is too low for the basses to a point where it is too high for the sopranos.
  17. (Transposition) Transposing two units of text means putting each one into the place formerly occupied by the other. There are Emacs commands to transpose two adjacent characters, words, sexps (q.v.) or lines (see section Transposing Text).
  18. (Transposition) The writing or performance of a piece of music in a key other than that in which it was originally written
  19. (Transposition) Changing the powers of a sphero-cylinder lens or astigmatic prescription from one cylinder form to the other (- to + or + to -).
  20. (TRANSPOSITION) In translation, the choice of features indigenous to the target language and target culture in preference to features rooted in the source language and culture. ...
  21. (Transposition) A validating form of argument from propositional logic:
  22. (Transposition) An advanced recorder technique where you change from alto to soprano fingering (or vice-versa) in the middle of a piece.
  23. (Transposition) An insulator specially designed to accommodate two separate line wires and be able to "transpose" or swap them. The wire that started on the left would end up on the right and visa verse. ...
  24. (Transposition) Differential responding to two stimuli, apparently according to their relation rather than their absolute properties or individual features. For example, after discrimination training with two stimuli that differ along a dimension (e.g. ...
  25. (Transposition) The movement, using a wide variety of techniques, of an observed flow record to a new, unmeasured site.