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transpose
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I had transposed the last two digits of her phone number. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But when you have to transpose by a third or more you have to go back to square one. ▪ If my mind could be transposed to film, I could remember ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French transposer "transfer, remove; present, render symbolically" (14c.), from Latin transponere (past participle transpositus ) "to place over, set over," from trans- "over" (see trans- ) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linear algebra , the transpose of a matrix A is another matrix A (also written A ′, A , A or A ) created by any one of the following equivalent actions: reflect A over its main diagonal (which runs from top-left to bottom-right) to obtain A write the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transpose \Trans*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Transposing .] [F. transposer; pref. trans- (L. trans across) + poser to put. See Pose .] To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix v. change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute , commute ] transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story ...
Usage examples of transpose.
Their genes have been shuffled around, mutated, transposed, rearranged, duplicated, reduplicated, and transmuted, and the DNA we now possess bears only the vaguest resemblance to what it was like at the beginning.
I would always work in my corresponding synesthetic colors and then transpose the work, scoring it in normal musical notation.
We found that our synesthetic experiences were similar and that our sense impressions were often transposed with the same results.
Zarabar, and transposing from there to Passenger Terminal Sixteen, and from there to the Dwarma Sector.
But clarinets also illustrate another advantage of families of transposing instruments.
Of course, a player who has only one clarinet, as many younger or less affluent players do, will sometimes have to contend not only with awkward fingerings, but simultaneously with mentally transposing every note of the part.
Playing such a part on a B-flat trumpet requires mentally transposing every note, and by a different interval for every key of transposition.
So, for example, it would not make any sense to specify that the canonical representative of a speech melody could be determined by transposing it into the key of C major.
A case could be made for the viola to be a transposing version of the violin, except that, in the absence of frets, the built-in bias toward a certain key is minimal, and the instrument can thus be written as it sounds.
I took up recorders, I just learned one set of fingerings and when I play one of the others, I just read it as an appropriately transposing instrument.
The transposing of Leone Leoni is just this, and the romanticism of it delighted Liszt.
For years, little Kraft carried with him, three and a half times around the globe, despite the vicissitudes of local politics, his transposing horn.
It was a common practice with the Talmudists to conceal secret meanings and sounds of words by transposing the letters.
There are many tunes where a first phrase consists of some sequence of notes played in a certain rhythm, and then a second phrase consists of the same sequence of notes transposed along the diatonic scale, played in the same rhythm.
A series of subtle shifting of the opening patterns followed, until Zhdanov found himself transposed into play against the Caro-Kann defense, a favorite of his later years as champion.