Usually means: Rearranging elements into a new order.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word transposition:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. transposition: Merriam-Webster
  2. transposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Transposition, transposition: Wordnik
  7. transposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. transposition: Wiktionary
  9. transposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. transposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. transposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. transposition: Dictionary.com
  13. Transposition (chess), Transposition (disambiguation), Transposition (genetics), Transposition (horizontal gene transfer), Transposition (law), Transposition (logic), Transposition (mathematics), Transposition (music), Transposition (telecommunications), Transposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Transposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. transposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. transposition: Rhymezone
  17. Transposition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. transposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. transposition: FreeDictionary.org
  20. transposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. transposition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Transposition (Trans.): Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transposition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Transposition (cipher), Transposition (cryptography), Transposition (genetics), transposition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. transposition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Transposition (cardiac), Transposition (genetics), transposition: Medical dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Transposition: Biology dictionary
  4. Transposition: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. transposition: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  7. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Transposition: Backgammon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Transposition: Glossary of Insulator Terms

(Note: See transpositional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (transposition)

noun:  (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
noun:  (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
noun:  (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
noun:  (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
verb:  To transpose
verb:  (psychiatry) To take on the role of another person

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