Definition of transposition

• n. - The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
• n. - The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A change of a composition into another key.