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An event in which one thing is substituted for another
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transposition
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transposition \Trans`po*si"tion\, n. [F. transposition, from L. transponere, transpositum, to set over, remove, transfer; trans across, over + ponere to place. See Position .] The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Specifically: (Alg.) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any abnormal position of the organs of the body [syn: heterotaxy ] an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: substitution , permutation , replacement , switch ] (genetics) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In propositional logic , transposition is a valid rule of replacement that permits one to switch the antecedent with the consequent of a conditional statement in a logical proof if they are also both negated . It is the inference from the truth of " A implies ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French transposition or directly from Medieval Latin transpositionem (nominative transpositio ), noun of action from past participle stem of transponere (see transpose ).
Usage examples of transposition.
I am the discoverer of the great law of the electrical transposition of the metals, and I am the first to demonstrate protyle, so that, I think, Robert, if all my schemes in other directions come to nothing, my name is at least likely to live in the chemical world.
Playing such a part on a B-flat trumpet requires mentally transposing every note, and by a different interval for every key of transposition.
Ghaldron-Hesthor paratemporal transposition field was uninfluenced by material objects outside it.
Nevertheless, it was in the nature of the transposition that had taken place that of anything of occult or other significance to be seen he should now have a substantial and unintermittent view.
In musical terminology this corresponds to transposition into a different key.
There was a fifty-foot conveyer dome inside, and a fifty-foot redlined circle that marked the transposition point of an outtime conveyer.
He seems to have enjoyed some success in solving the Japanese ciphers, which appear to have been columnar transposition of the kana symbols.
Transposition of the letters of a word common amongst Talmudists, 698-m.
When the Art of Transposition causes the veins of the marble to revert back to the blood of the Heretics, this shall be an example of the craft that will have no previous equal in its complexity.
When we look at the molecular-genetic basis of life, all we can find are differences and singularities: multiple variations, competing alleles, aberrant particle distributions, unforeseeable sequence transpositions.
And locate all the big antigrav-equipped ship transposition docks on Commercial and Passenger Sectors, and a list of freighters and passenger ships that can be commandeered in a hurry.
It has all the marks of a large-scale operation, and if this is a matter of mass kidnappings from one sector and transpositions to another, you can see what a threat this is to the Paratime Secret.
The system depended on CD-ROMs stamped with totally random transpositions, and unless you could find a key to atmospheric RF noise, that was the end of that.
The Outtime Trading Corporation has transposition facilities at Ravvanan, on the Nile, which is spatially coexistent with the city of Ghamma on the Akor-Neb Sector, where Zortan Brend is.
The Ghaldron-Hesthor Transposition Field was a collaboration between Chaldron (who was working to develop a spacewarp drive) and Hesthor (who was working on the possibility of linear time travel, that is to get back to the past) and Rhogom (who was studying precognition).