transposition

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It has been conjectured that it is derived from the transposition from the Hebrew word ezor_, a girdle, the zero assuming that form.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of transposing.
  2. noun The state of being transposed.
  3. noun Something transposed.

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  • These gentlemen had heard from the music—masters of Paris that the method of executing by transposition was a bad one; and on this authority converted the most evident advantage of my system into an invincible objection against it, and affirmed that my mode of notation was good for vocal music, but bad for instrumental; instead of concluding as they ought to have done, that it was good for vocal, and still better for instrumental. —  The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
  • We'll be doing a little dissection, transposition, a vanish, an appearance - and if I do a trick, she doesn't just hold the props, she's actually getting inside the big boxes or I am slicing her up. —  Softpedia News - Global
  • "We'll be doing a little dissection, transposition, a vanish, an appearance-and if I do a trick she doesn't just hold the props, she's actually getting inside the big boxes or I am slicing her up." stallone —  andPOP.com
  • To study the roles of selection, transposition, and demography in shaping TE population diversity, we generated a polymorphism dataset for six TE families in four populations of the flowering plant Arabidopsis lyrata. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The format is exactly the same as the Apprentice and remarkably it doesn't suffer from the transposition, apart from in one area. —  Watch With Mothers
 

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  1. from French transposition =Provencal transpositio =Spanish transposicion, trasposicion =Portuguese trasposição =Italian trasposizione, from Late Latin transpositio (n-), from Latin transponere, past participle transpositus, transpose: see transpose.
 

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/trænspəˈzɪʃən/
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