transposition

noun trans·po·si·tion \ ˌtran(t)s-pə-ˈzi-shən \

Definition of transposition

1 a :an act, process, or instance of transposing or being transposed

b :the transfer of a segment of DNA from one site to another in the genome

2 a :the transfer of any term of an equation from one side over to the other side with a corresponding change of the sign

b :a mathematical permutation or interchange of two letters or symbols

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transpositional

play \-ˈzish-nəl, -ˈzi-shə-nᵊl\ adjective

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But in someone with transposition of the great arteries, these blood vessels are switched: The aorta comes off the right ventricle — which lacks oxygenated blood — to the rest of the body, and the pulmonary artery comes off the left ventricle.

— Washington Post, "Procedures to fix complex congenital heart defects," 4 June 2017
Visconti originally planned to set it in independent Algeria, a transposition vetoed by Camus’s widow, Francine Camus.

— j. hoberman, New York Times, "‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni," 25 May 2017
This arch, bold, and tender transposition of elements of the Nativity to the cramped secular life of a high-school student in current-day Paris is as much of an emotional wonder as a conceptual one.

— richard brody, The New Yorker, "The Son of Joseph," 31 Mar. 2017
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.

— bruce sterling, WIRED, "The latest EDRI-gram," 5 June 2013

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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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transposition

noun trans·po·si·tion \ ˌtran(t)s-pə-ˈzish-ən \

medical Definition of transposition

:an act, process, or instance of transposing or being transposed: as

a :the displacement of a viscus to a side opposite from that which it normally occupies

transposition of the heart

b :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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transpositional

play \-ˈzish-nəl\ adjective

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