Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.
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- noun
transposition
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Examples
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By changing the word list, the longest well-mixed transposal changes.
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Simultaneously also, another mechanism is set up, through the development of the nervous system, which permits the exchange of rapid messages and their swift transposal into action.
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Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party.
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Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party.
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Page vii -- place name and page reference transposal reversed -- "Strozzi Palace, Florence, 70"
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various
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The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole.
Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911
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Some things are extremely witty to-day, or fasting, or in this place, or at eight o'clock, or over a bottle, or spoke by Mr. Whatdyecall'm, or in a summer's morning, any of which, by the smallest transposal or misapplication, is utterly annihilate.
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
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Ryan’s mouth corners twitched as his mind performed the same transposal mine had.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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a story must represent an integrated whole, i.e., there must be the multiple, the parts or incidents, and the unity, a connection so close “that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislo - cate the whole” (Ch. 7).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968
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Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party. ”
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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