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Definition: Transposition |
TranspositionNoun1. An event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood". 2. Act of reversing the order or place of. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transposition" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Transposition \Trans`po*si"tion\, noun. [French expression transposition, from the Latin expression transponere, transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over ponere to place. See Position.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Type of transposition in which the two line conductors of a circuit generally remain in the same plane but regularly interchange their actual positions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Modifications, made in accordance with certain rules, of the arrangement of conductors of the arms of an overhead telephone line, effected with a view to reducing the mutual coupling between neighbouring circuits. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The arrangement of the strands or laminations of a conductor or of the conductors comprising a turn or coil whereby they take different relative positions in a slot for the purpose of reducing eddy-current losses. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | A transmission defect in which, during 1 character period, 1 or more signal elements are changed from 1 significant condition to the other, and an equal number of elements are changed in th e opposite sens e. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Transposition in music is the changing all notes in a piece of music by a constant interval. See also Transposing instrument.
In mathematics, a transposition is a permutation which exchanges two elements and keeps all others fixed. For example (1 3) is a transposition which exchange 1 and 3. A transposition is a cycle of length two.
In cryptography, a transposition is an elementary cryptographic operation somewhat related to the mathematical permutations. See transposition (cryptography).
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In classical cryptography, transposition refers to ciphers or cryptographic operations which consist of exchanging the position of elements.This is stub. The rest of the article is coming in a couple of hours.'
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transposition."
Synonyms: TranspositionSynonyms: permutation (n), replacement (n), reversal (n), substitution (n), switch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Displacement | Noun: displacement, elocation, transposition. |
Interchange | Noun: interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling; hocus-pocus. |
Inversion | Transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome. |
Transference | Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, vectitation; shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Transposition |
| English words defined with "transposition": Enharmonical ♦ metathesis ♦ spoonerism ♦ Trajection, Transposal, Transpositional, Transpositive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "transposition": Alu Elements ♦ crossings ♦ Double Outlet Right Ventricle ♦ Levocardia ♦ non-compensated length, Nor, not ♦ Steroid Isomerases, Subject after the Verb, Sulfur-Sulfur Bond Isomerases ♦ transposition by crossing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "transposition": Brasse ♦ Conchinine ♦ Komenic ♦ Lantanuric, Lutidine ♦ Mutton ♦ Oxalan, Oxalantin ♦ Pulvinic ♦ Trajection. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Transposition" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (adaptation, changeover, moving, readjustment, transfer, transposal, transposition), German (transposition). |
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| "Transposition" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transposition" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "transposition": transposition by crossing ♦ Transposition of Great Vessels. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
transposition of the great vessel | 23 |
transposition great artery | 20 |
transposition | 19 |
nerve transposition ulnar | 17 |
cybernetic transposition | 9 |
music transposition | 8 |
anterior submuscular transposition | 3 |
chart transposition | 2 |
instrument transposition | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "transposition"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | transponim (removal), zhvendosje (displacement, locomotion, shift, transposal), ndërrim vendesh (reversal, transposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النقل من إلى, التحويل (alteration, revulsion), التغيير (change), الترجمة إلى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | транспониране, преместване (displacement, remove, transfer, translocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 交叉点 (intersection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | transpozice, přemístìní (displacement, removal, transfer, transference). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | transposition, transponering, omstilling (automatic re-setting, automatic restoring, conversion, inversion, transfer), ombytning (inversion), ledningstransponering, faseskruning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | transpositie, wanordelijke schikking (inversion), verplaatsing (displacement, migration, transportation), omkering (inversion, reversal), fasewisseling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vuorottelu (alternating, alternation, interchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transposition (transfer, transposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Umstellung (adaptation, adjustment, alteration, changeover, encirclement, rearranging, reordering, shuffle, siege, switch, switch over), Austausch (commutation, exchange, interchange, replacement, substitution, swapping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετάθεση (metathesis, permutation, relegation, removal, transfer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שרבוב (interpolation, prolongation), טר ספוזיצי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | transzponálás (transposing), felcserélés (commutation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasposizione, inversione (inversion, reversal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 転位 (dislocation, rearrangement), 移調 , 移 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | い"う (authority, clothes rack, great deed, great effect, hereafter, idea, inclination, influence, intention, lingering odor of giver, on and after, perfume on the clothing, posthumous manuscripts, power, remains, switching over to, thereafter, to relax, to repose, to rest, works following the deceased), いちょう (chief physician, curtain, foreign country, foreign court, gastrointestine, gingko tree, ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree, medical director, notification to authorities, stomach), て"い (change, dislocation, divine will, heavenly garment, imperial authority, imperial majesty, imperial throne, metastasis, natural, providence, providential, rearrangement, transference). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | maylartys (mutuality, reciprocity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anspositiontray transposição (metathesis, migration). (various references) transpoziţiune, transpoziţie, intervertire (inversion). (various references) перестановка (interchanging, permutation, rearrangement, reshuffle, reversal, reversion, shift, transposal). (various references) transpozicija, premeštanje (displacement, image displacement, parallax, shifting), premeštaj (shift, transfer, transposal). (various references) transposición (transposal). (various references) partförflyttning, omkastning (change, inversion, reversal, turnover), omflyttning (resettlement, shuffle). (various references) yerini değiştirme, yer değişikliği, denklemin diğer tarafına geçirme, aktarma (adaptation, alien, connection, quotation, transfer, transmission, transshipment). (various references) транспозиція (transposal), перестановка (interchange, inversion, permutation, rearrangement, reshuffle, reversion, transposal). (various references) sự đổi chỗ (displacement). (various references) trawsgyweiriad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conversio, conversione, conversionem, transgressio, transgressione, transgressionem, transgressiones, transgressionis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "transposition": transpositional, transpositions. (additional references) | |
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"Transposition" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transponition. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "transposition" (pronounced 'Trans`po*si"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antiprotons, transitions. | |
-3 letters: antiproton, nitrations, nonartists, partitions, pronations, protistans, sopraninos, sortitions, striations, transition, transposon. | |
-4 letters: nitration, nonartist, notations, ostinatos, parotitis, partition, positions, positrons, potations, pronation, protistan, rotations, sonorants, sopranino, sorptions, sortition, spiritoso, spittoons, striation, strontias, troponins. | |
-5 letters: airposts, antiporn, antiriot, arnottos, arsonist, aspirins, atropins, instants, intrants, introits, ironists, nonpasts, notation, notornis, onanists, opinions, opsonins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: transpositions. | |
+2 letters: contrapositions, transpositional. | |
+3 letters: procrastinations, prognostications. | |
+5 letters: noncooperationists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 73 70 6F 73 69 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. ... .--. --- ... .. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01110000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n s p o s i t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0070 006F 0073 0069 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846780858281857586758180 |
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