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transposition

transposition noun: the act or process of transposing or interchanging.

Noun

transposition (countable and uncountable, plural transpositions)

  1. (especially) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
  2. 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. A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
  4. (European-Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.

Verb

transposition (third-person singular simple present transpositions, present participle transpositioning, simple past and past participle transpositioned)

  1. To transpose
  2. To take on the role of another person

transposition meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

transposition in Tamil

இடம் மாற்றி வைப்பு, நிலையை மாற்றியமைத்தல், இடமாற்றம், இடமாற்றம் செய்தல், இருப்பிநிலை மாற்றம், உடலுறுப்பு எதிர்ப்புறப் பிறழ்வு

transposition in Urdu

تبدیلی

transposition in Malayalam

പരസ്പരമാറ്റം

Examples of transposition in a sentence

  • Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
  • The longest non-scientific English words which can form anagrams are the 17-letter transpositions "misrepresentation" and "representationism".
  • Only eight hexachords may be associated in this way with their own transpositions.

All 12 example sentences with transposition

Forms of transposition

Noun
pluraltranspositions
Verb
third-person singular presenttranspositions
present participletranspositioning
past participletranspositioned
pasttranspositioned

Plural of transposition: transpositions

Origin of transposition

From Middle French transposition, from Medieval Latin transpositio.

Words formed from transposition

Questions about transposition

What does transposition mean?
Transposition means the act or process of transposing or interchanging.
What is transposition in Tamil?
Transposition in Tamil is இடம் மாற்றி வைப்பு, நிலையை மாற்றியமைத்தல், இடமாற்றம். See Transposition meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is transposition?
Transposition can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of transposition?
The plural of transposition is transpositions.

Words near transposition in the dictionary

  1. transposer
  2. transposers
  3. transposes
  4. transposing
  5. transposings
  6. transposition
  7. transposition cipher
  8. transpositional
  9. transpositionally
  10. transpositioning
  11. transpositions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transposition (page history and authors); transposition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transposition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transposition (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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