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• Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.From the entry sharp
• The longest non-scientific English words which can form anagrams are the 17-letter transpositions "misrepresentation" and "representationism".1978, Norris McWhirter (editor), Guinness Book of World Records 1978, page 205. From the entry non-scientific
• Only eight hexachords may be associated in this way with their own transpositions.1963, George Perle, “Simultaneity”, in Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern…. From the entry trope
• For example the packaging directive was gold plated in transposition.2010, Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development, “The interface between members states and the European Union”, in Better…. From the entry gold plate
• The technical term for this transposition is metaphasis.2009, Denise Sutherland, Word Searches For Dummies, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry metaphasis
• The key words here are entextualisation, transposition and recontextualisation.2000, Hugh R. Trappes-Lomax, editor, Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics. From the entry entextualisation
• Checkdigits flag transpositions and other data entry gaffes.1985 August, Wendy L. McKibbin, “Conventional Wisdom”, in PC World, volume 3, number 8, San Francisco: PC World Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry checkdigit
• 'Oxford's great metaphasiarch', as Punch once called him, was seldom guilty of metaphasis, or the transposition of sounds.1953, Sir Ernest Barker, Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities ; And, Father of the Man, page 46. From the entry metaphasis
• This third approach can be illustrated by one of the most frequently-observed of Okara's translingualisms, the transposition into English of Ijo word-order.1990, Research in African Literatures, volume 21, number 3, page 84. From the entry translingualism
• The complete pitch content of the opening seven measures is the enneatonic collection, the highly symmetrical nine-note mode of limited transposition that is the complement of an augmented triad.2009, Evan Allan Jones, Intimate Voices: Debussy to Villa-Lobos, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry enneatonic
• The three parts were sufficiently self-contained to warrant consideration as individual monographs, and such has been the shape of their transposition to Anglo-American vernacular and bibliopoly.1986, Jaan Puhvel, David Weeks, “Editors’ Preface”, in Georges Dumézil, edited by Jaan Puhvel and David Weeks, The Plight of a Sorcerer…. From the entry bibliopoly
• It took a pulmonary valvotomy and a patch closure of a ventricular septal defect, for starters, not to mention an intra-atrial baffle operation for transposition using extracorporeal circulation.1982 December 7, Field News Service, “Medical insurance creates dilemma”, in The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Ind., →OCLC, page 20…. From the entry intra-atrial

Meaning of transposition

1. noun The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
2. noun A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
3. noun A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.

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Questions about transposition in a sentence

How do you use transposition in a sentence?

Transposition is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.”

What is a short sentence with transposition?

“Checkdigits flag transpositions and other data entry gaffes.”

What does transposition mean?

Transposition means the act or process of transposing or interchanging.