Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of transposition; made by transposing; consisting in transposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Made by
transposition . - adjective Capable of being
transposed .
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Examples
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I recently posted on my a request for any transpositive information regarding the intersection of trans and developmental disabilities.
I am tired Kay Olson 2007
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The Indian compound terms are so descriptive, so graphic, so local, so characterizing, yet so flexible and transpositive, that the legends derive no little of their characteristic features as well as melody of utterance from these traits.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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They are all, or nearly all, transpositive and polysynthetic; yet although now found in a very concrete form, this appears to have been not their original form, but rather the result of the progress of syllabical accretion, from a few limited roots and particles, which are yet when dissected found to be monosyllabic.
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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They spoke ONE general class of transpositive languages.
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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I identify as genderqueer in a rather relaxed way, but I read AfterEllen because I view it as a queer inclusive space and I think there is a difference between a space being transpositive and transinclusive.
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