transitive verb transposed, transposing
- to transfer or shift; now, specif., to change the usual, normal, relative, or respective order or position of; interchange: inadvertently transposed the e and the i in “weird”
- to transfer (an algebraic term) from one side of an equation to the other, reversing the plus or minus value
- to rewrite or play (a musical composition) in a different key or at another pitch level
- Obsolete to transform; convert
Origin:
ME transposen < MFr transposer (for L transponere): see trans- & pose
intransitive verb
to play music in a key or at a pitch level different from the one in which it is written
noun
Math. a matrix obtained by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix