Definition of transposition
1a : an act, process, or instance of transposing or being transposedb : the transfer of a segment of DNA from one site to another in the genome
2a : the transfer of any term of an equation from one side over to the other side with a corresponding change of the signb : a mathematical permutation or interchange of two letters or symbols
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Visconti originally planned to set it in independent Algeria, a transposition vetoed by Camus’s widow, Francine Camus.
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The transposition into the Czech legislation was annulled by its Constitutional Court in 2011 and in Germany, the legislation was also stopped by the Constitutional Court in 2010.
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Origin and Etymology of transposition
Anglo-French transposicion, from Medieval Latin transposition-, transpositio, from Latin transponere to transpose
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playMedical Definition of transposition
: an act, process, or instance of transposing or being transposed: asa: the displacement of a viscus to a side opposite from that which it normally occupies transposition of the heartb: the transfer of a segment of DNA from one site to another in the genome either between chromosomal sites or between an extrachromosomal site (as on a plasmid) and a chromosome
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