Transposition

The term transposition (from Latin : transponere "to move"; PPP transpositum ) denotes:

• in linguistics, the transfer of an existing word into a new semantic class, see transposition (linguistics)
• in music changing the pitch of music passages, see transposition (music)
• a special kind of permutation that swaps exactly two elements, see cyclic permutation
• in the case of a matrix, the mirroring on the main diagonal, see transposed matrix
• In cryptography, an encryption method in which the order of the characters is changed (permuted), see transposition (cryptography)
• the interchanging of the cardiac and pulmonary arteries, see transposition of the great arteries
• in genetics a sequence exchange, see transposon

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Wiktionary: Transposition  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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