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- noun Plural form of
transposition .
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Examples
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Remember, he's writing parts for all these instruments with complex transpositions and key signatures with up to six sharps—all this carried in his head!
Four Lost Measures Found Anne S. Lewis 2011
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I want to see on the big screen comic transpositions also different (as this story for example).
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They're kind of like transpositions of old religious tales and that kind of thing into everyday life.
Marina Cashdan: Mental States: An Interview with George Condo Marina Cashdan 2011
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These kinds of transpositions don't always work -- especially when taken to this extreme -- but here they work both comically and dramatically.
Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011
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These kinds of transpositions don't always work -- especially when taken to this extreme -- but here they work both comically and dramatically.
Marc Porter Zasada: Theater Review: A 'Merchant' for Modern Times Marc Porter Zasada 2011
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A gutsy move to be sure, but more so when one considers the many transpositions and reassignments that are needed to keep this boat moving.
Gonna Fly Now 2008
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I have edited books/bound journals in a veterinary school library - but only in pencil, and only to correct number transpositions (where I've double-checked the original) or erroneous references (e.g. volume 4, not volume 14; "Journal of Parasitology", not "Parasitology"; pages 226-228, not 126-128).
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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Her work operates energetically in an indefinable area somewhere between the painting and the viewer where light glows and flickers in rhythmic transformations, transpositions and variations, a process closer to music than to conventional painting.
Bridget Riley at the National Gallery - review Hilary Spurling 2010
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A gutsy move to be sure, but more so when one considers the many transpositions and reassignments that are needed to keep this boat moving.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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While they did some tests for transpositions and clerical errors in addresses, did they do the same for such in names?
Balkinization 2007
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