transposition

Noun

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

• the act of reversing the order or place of

• (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
    

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

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

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another
  • the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
    

• any abnormal position of the organs of the body

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  reversal , substitution , permutation , replacement , switch , heterotaxy