A Transposition

Etymology

From Medieval Latin transpositiō ("a placing across, transposition"), from Latin transpōnere ("to place across, transfer"), from trāns- ("across, beyond") + pōnere ("to put, place"), from Proto-Indo-European po-s(i)nere* (from apo-* "off, away" + tḱey-* "to settle, dwell").

Meanings

The act or process of transposing; the state of being transposed.
An interchange of the positions of two or more things, letters, words, or numbers.
(mathematics, linear algebra) The operation of interchanging the rows and columns of a matrix; the resulting transpose matrix itself.
(mathematics, combinatorics) A permutation that swaps exactly two elements of a set while leaving all other elements fixed.
(music) The rewriting or performance of a piece of music in a key different from the original key.
(genetics) The movement of a DNA sequence from one location in a genome to another.
(chess) A sequence of moves that results in a board position that could have been reached by another, more common order of moves.

Synonyms

interchange, swap, shift, transfer, rearrangement, metathesis

Related terms

transpose, transposable, transposon, transpose matrix

Translations

Arabic: (تَبْدِيل), (نَقْل), (تَبَادُلُ المَوَاقِع), (تَحْوِير)

German: (die Transposition), (die Umstellung), (die Vertauschung)

Norwegian Bokmål: (en transposisjon), (en omstilling)