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Transposition   Listen
noun
Transposition  n.  The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed. Specifically:
(a)
(Alg.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
(b)
(Gram.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.
(c)
(Mus.) A change of a composition into another key.






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"Transposition" Quotes from Famous Books



... all their pretensions to genius and discoveries, they do little more than copy one another; and that compositions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty, contain only tedious repetitions of common sentiments, or at best exhibit a transposition of known images, and give a new appearance of truth only by some slight difference of ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... Committees. Reprimand. Resolution. Returns. Roll. Rules. Secondary Questions. Seconding of motions. Secretary. Separation of propositions. Speaking. Speaking member. Speech, reading of, by member. Subsidiary Questions. Suspension of a rule. Transposition of proposition. Vice-President. Voting. Will of assembly. Withdrawal of motion. Yeas ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai

... Occasioned by a transposition of figures. In vol. xi. referred to in the above page, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 394, October 17, 1829 • Various

... of faded/missing letters and some transposition errors in the edition this eBook was taken from. ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein

... Bourgogne (the exigencies of this last anagram required the substitution of a z for an s),—were a never-ending marvel to Colleville. Raising the anagram to the height of a science, he declared that the destiny of every man was written in the words or phrase given by the transposition of the letters of his names and titles; and his patriotism struggled hard to suppress the fact—signal evidence for his theory—that in Horatio Nelson, "honor est a Nilo." Ever since the accession of Charles X., he had bestowed much thought on the king's anagram. Thuillier, who was ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac


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