Transposition

(noun.) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards.

(noun.) the act of reversing the order or place of.

(noun.) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance; 'he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition'.

(noun.) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign.

(noun.) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome.

(noun.) any abnormal position of the organs of the body.

巴里整理

• This is a matter of secondary importance, like the principle of transposition which was intimated in the parable of the earthborn men. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In this passage he shadows forth a general truth, but he does not tell us by what steps the transposition of ranks is to be effected. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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