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US
/tɹænˈspoʊz/
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VERB
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exchange positions without a change in value
These operators commute with each other - put (a piece of music) into another key
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change key
Can you transpose this fugue into G major? -
cause to change places
interchange this screw for one of a smaller size - transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
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transfer from one place or period to another
The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America -
change the order or arrangement of
Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word
NOUN
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
How To Use transpose In A Sentence
- It checks bank account numbers before accepting them and will detect many common transcription errors, including incorrectly entered and transposed characters. Times, Sunday Times
- She transposed the song into a different key.
- Actual Hebrew letters in original. mem and tet are transposed, kaph and vav look just like resh. * = final forms.p. 52, note "54". Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
- Suppose two adjacent digits, cd, are transposed to dc.
- Instead of searching for a modern definition of culture, Nietzsche transposes an archaic ideal of culture (modeled after the stratified society of ancient Greece) onto modern society.
- The confusion was caused when two numbers were accidentally transposed by a Social Security clerk.
- Can you transpose this fugue into G major?
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was originally named Ysidro Francis Edgeworth but transposed his forenames.
- In this future setting mankind transposed modern nautical and naval terminology to their spacefaring starships.
- Italians today use the more prosaic besciamella, which is the sound of the French word transposed into Italian with an extra la stuck on the end to give it a more homely ring. Delizia!
