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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    transposition example sentences

    transposition


    1. That there is a way to be searched out, a latent talent that might be brought to expression, a puzzle beyond the capacity of Man’s intellect alone to solve, which can provide for this grandiloquent transposition, has forever consumed the consciousness of his very uncertain and limited existence


    2. example, transposition of transcendental experience into the sphere of


    3. They should observe what elements mingle in their offspring; for if the son of a golden or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks, and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful towards the child because he has to descend in the scale and become a husbandman or artisan, just as there may be sons of artisans who having an admixture of gold or silver in them are raised to honour, and become guardians or auxiliaries


    4. If a teacher according to the new German fashion wants to go ahead and perfect himself, he has to follow the pedagogical literature, that is, to read all those new inventions about the conversations about the suslik and about the transposition of the squares


    5. She read the town gossip, a local weather prediction, an account of the hospital fair; and as she rocked and ate one after the other the chocolate marshmallows she had a feeling of freedom, whose cause was due simply to the fact that she had changed her point of view—due to the humble novelty of her transposition


    6. " 70 It is the aim of this paper to show, that the earliest publications of the sculptured reliefs on this monument have given a faulty representation of them, owing to the transposition of two sets of figures; that this mistake has been repeated in most subsequent publications down to our day; that inferences deduced therefrom have in so far been vitiated; and that new instructive facts concerning Greek composition in sculpture can be derived from a corrected rendering of the original


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    Synonyms for "transposition"

    transposition reversal permutation replacement substitution switch heterotaxy

    "transposition" definitions

    any abnormal position of the organs of the body


    an event in which one thing is substituted for another


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


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


    (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance


    the act of reversing the order or place of


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