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| trans·pose [ transs pṓz ] |
verb (past and past participle trans·posed, present participle trans·pos·ing, 3rd person present singular trans·pos·es) |
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1. transitive verb reverse order of things: to make two things change places or reverse their usual order, e.g. two letters in a word
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2. transitive verb move something to different position: to move something to a different position, especially in a sequence
  transposed that section to the end of the essay
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3. transitive verb change setting of something: to take something such as a story, incident, or play out of its original setting or time and relocate it in another
transposing the action from Shakespeare's time to the present
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4. transitive and intransitive verb music change music to different key: to rewrite or play a musical composition in a key or at a pitch other than the one in which it was originally written or in which it is usually performed
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5. transitive verb mathematics move term in equation: to transfer a term from one side of an equation to the other, reversing its sign
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noun (plural trans·pos·es) |
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mathematics type of matrix: a matrix created by interchanging the rows and columns of a previously given matrix
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| [14th century. < French transposer, alteration (by association with poser "to place") of Latin transponere< ponere "to place"] |
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