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Noun transposition has 7 senses

• transposition(n = noun.state) heterotaxy - any abnormal position of the organs of the body; Array
is a kind of abnormalcy, abnormality

• transposition(n = noun.event) permutation, replacement, substitution, switch - an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
is a kind of fluctuation, variation

• transposition(n = noun.event) Array - (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome; Array
is a kind of chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation

• transposition(n = noun.act) Array - (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign; Array
is a kind of calculation, computation, computing
Derived form verb transpose₄

• transposition(n = noun.act) Array - (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"
is a kind of rearrangement

• transposition(n = noun.act) reversal - the act of reversing the order or place of; Array
is a kind of reordering
Derived form verb transpose₁

• transposition(n = noun.act) Array - (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards; Array
is a kind of playing
Derived form verb transpose₇

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transposition

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

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Interchange

N interchange, exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling (at chess), hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo, interchanged, reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant, in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about, each in his turn, everyone in his turn.

Displacement

N displacement, elocation, transposition, ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element.

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

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