transposition in WordNet English dictionary

1. any abnormal position of the organs of the body
   transposition  heterotaxy 
   
2. an event in which one thing is substituted for another
   "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
   substitution  permutation  transposition  replacement  switch 
   
3. the act of reversing the order or place of
   transposition  reversal 
   
4. (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
   transposition 
   
5. (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
   transposition 
   
6. (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"
   transposition 
   
7. (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
   transposition