Crossword clues for transpose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.
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To change; to transform; to invert. [R.]
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
--Shak. (Alg.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.
(Gram.) To change the natural order of, as words.
(Mus.) To change the key of.
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; see position (n.)). Form altered in French on model of poser "to put, place." Sense of "put music in a different key" is from c.1600. Related: Transposed; transposing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
(context adjective algebra English) In matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix. n. (context adjective algebra English) In matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix. v
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1 (context transitive English) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange. 2 (context transitive music English) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key 3 (context transitive algebra English) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reverse the sign of the term. 4 (context transitive mathematics English) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. Etymology 2
n. (context linear algebra English) In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
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 was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transplant]
cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size" [syn: counterchange, interchange]
transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
put (a piece of music) into another key
transpose and remain equal in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute]
change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"
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 rows of A as the columns of A
- write the columns of A as the rows of A
Formally, the i th row, j th column element of A is the j th row, i th column element of A:
[A] = [A]
If A is an matrix then A is an matrix.
The transpose of a matrix was introduced in 1858 by the British mathematician Arthur Cayley.
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.