transposition

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   the act of reversing the order or place of

3. 3

   (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

4. 4

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

5. 5

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

6. 6

   an event in which one thing is substituted for another

   the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood

7. 7

   any abnormal position of the organs of the body