Transposition1. (n.) The act of changing the sequence or order; interchanging.
2. (n.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
3. (n.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.
4. (n.) A change of a composition into another key.
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