Transposition Synonyms

trănspə-zĭshən
The act of exchanging or substituting
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. change
  2. commutation
  3. exchange
  4. interchange
  5. shift
  6. substitution
  7. switch
  8. trade
  9. swap
The act of changing or being changed from one position, direction, or course to the opposite
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inversion
  2. reversal
  3. metathesis
  4. transposal
  5. changing
  6. substitution
  7. turnabout
  8. permutation
  9. turnaround
  10. replacement
  11. switch
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Any abnormal position of the organs of the body
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. heterotaxy

Words Related to Transposition

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Transposition Sentence Examples

  • Similarly it is shown that the transposition of any two columns or of any two rows merely changes the sign of the determinant.

  • If, however, as is the view of some of Fick's followers, the transposition took place several centuries earlier, before species of literature had appropriated particular dialects, then the linguistic facts upon which Fick relied to distinguish the " Aeolic " and " Ionic " elements in Homer disappear.

  • We also need to know the transposition for a bob.

  • In doing what he did, Descartes actually exemplified that reduction of the processes of nature to mere transposition of the particles of matter, which in different ways was a leading idea in the minds of Bacon, Hobbes and Gassendi.

  • An instance of transposition of words in part is in Shelley's "Invocation to Misery," 1.27, "And mine arm shall be thy pillow," where the 1st ed.

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