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transposition

noun 13 letters Scrabble 15 WWF 18
Definitions
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any abnormal position of the organs of the body

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an event in which one thing is substituted for another

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the act of reversing the order or place of

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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”

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

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

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

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