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transposition
A	noun
	1	transposition
			(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚diversion; recreation ╚entertainment; amusement ╚show ╚presentation; presentment; demonstration ╚performance ╚musical performance ╚playing ╚transposition
	2	transposition, reversal
			the act of reversing the order or place of
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚creation; creative activity ╚creating by mental acts ╚composing; composition ╚arrangement; arranging; transcription ╚rearrangement ╚reordering ╚transposition, reversal
	3	transposition
			(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"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚creation; creative activity ╚creating by mental acts ╚composing; composition ╚arrangement; arranging; transcription ╚rearrangement ╚transposition
	4	transposition
			(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity form one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚procedure; process ╚calculation; computation; computing ╚transposition
	5	transposition
			(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚change; alteration; modification ╚mutation; genetic mutation; chromosomal mutation ╚transposition
	6	substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch
			an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚change; alteration; modification ╚variation; fluctuation ╚substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch
	7	transposition, heterotaxy
			any abnormal position of the organs of the body
		Category Tree: state ╚condition; status ╚abnormality; abnormalcy; abnormal condition ╚transposition, heterotaxy

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