Transposition (law) definition

(1) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards

(2) The act of reversing the order or place of

(3) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance

"He wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition"

(4) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign

(5) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome

(6) An event in which one thing is substituted for another

"The replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"

(7) Any abnormal position of the organs of the body