noun
- A matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix.
verb
- Change the order or arrangement of.
- usage: "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word"
- Transfer from one place or period to another.
- usage: "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
- synonyms: transfer, transplant
- Cause to change places.
- usage: "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size"
- synonyms: counterchange, interchange
- Transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality.
- Put (a piece of music) into another key.
- Exchange positions without a change in value.
- usage: "These operators commute with each other"
- synonyms: commute
- Change key.
- usage: "Can you transpose this fugue into G major"
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