Trāns-po-sĭ'tion, n.

(-zĭsh'un), n. [Fr. transposition, Sp. transposicion, trasposicion, It. trasposizione, Fr. & L. Lat. transpositio.] The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; especially, (a.) (Alg.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation. (b.) (Gram.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English. (c.) (Mus.) A change in the composition, either in the transcript or the performance, by which the whole is removed into another key.