transposition

From Middle French transposition, from Medieval Latin transpositio.

transposition (countable and uncountable, plural transpositions)

1. (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
2. (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.
3. (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
4. (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.

• honorific transposition
• transpositional

• transpose

transposition (third-person singular simple present transpositions, present participle transpositioning, simple past and past participle transpositioned)

1. To transpose
2. (psychiatry) To take on the role of another person

• twelve tone technique
• serialism

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. →ISBN, Ch. 6.

From transposer.

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transposition f (plural transpositions)

1. transposition

• “transposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.