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Dictionary: trans·po·si·tion   (trăns'pə-zĭsh'ən) pronunciation

n.
    1. The act or an instance of transposing.
    2. The state of being transposed.
  1. Something transposed.
  2. Genetics. Transfer of a segment of DNA to a new position on the same or another chromosome or plasmid.
transpositional trans'po·si'tion·al adj.

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  1. The act of exchanging or substituting: change, commutation, exchange, interchange, shift, substitution, switch, trade. Informal swap. See change/persist, substitute.
  2. The act of changing or being changed from one position, direction, or course to the opposite: inversion, reversal, turnabout, turnaround. See change/persist.

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The notation or performance of music at a pitch different from that in which it was originally conceived, by raising or lowering all the notes by the same interval.



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Term sometimes used in logic for the transformation usually known as contraposition, whereby from (pq) we can derive (¬q → ¬p).

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Displacement to the opposite side; in genetics, the nonreciprocal insertion of material deleted from one chromosome into another, nonhomologous chromosome.

  • t. of arterial trunks — see transposition of great vessels (below).
  • t. of great vessels — a congenital heart defect, in which the position of the chief blood vessels of the heart is reversed. Called also transposition of arterial trunks.
  • ulnar styloid t. — a surgical procedure for correction of growth deformity resulting from premature closure of the distal ulnar physis. The distal tip of the ulna is fused to the distal radial epiphysis.
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Transposition may refer to:

Mathematics
  • Transposition (mathematics), a permutation which exchanges two elements and keeps all others fixed
  • Transposition, producing the transpose of a matrix AT, which is computed by swapping columns for rows in the matrix A
Games
  • Transposition (chess), different moves or a different move order leading to the same position, especially during the openings
  • Transposition table, used in computer games to speed up the search of the game tree
Biology
  • Transposition of the great vessels, cardiac transposition, a congenital heart defect with malformation of any of the major vessels
  • Transposons, or genetic transposition, a mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
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