Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, the act or process of changing a piece or passage from one tonality to another; transposition.
- noun In electricity, the shifting, with reference to each other, of line-wires so as to reduce inductive action. See
transposition , 7. - Serving to transpose; effecting transposition.
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- verb Present participle of
transpose .
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Examples
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I think I will get one, particularly now because I'm curious to see how Douglas dealt with transposing from the Latin!
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Question: "What do you call transposing initials, Ed?
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It was John Milius who first came up with the idea of transposing Joseph Conrad's Heart of
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I would also maybe consider "transposing" the whole thing and asking in each row about a specific area of responsibility with institutions in columns.
Critique My First Serious Survey, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Some families of instruments are called "transposing" instruments because they are written in one key but actually sound in another.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy met with religious leaders and reiterated the need to avoid "transposing" onto French soil a foreign conflict the country has been working to ease, his office said.
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Mistakes by data entry clerks such as transposing the first name / last name or the numbers on a voter's street address or social security number, leaving out a hyphen in a name, a typo on the name of the street or the zip code, differences in the various databases used, and leaving off a "Sr." or "Jr." can all cause a "no match" and thus a "no vote."
The BRAD BLOG 2008
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