transposition

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It's a transposition cipher where the Qs are spaces.

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any abnormal position of the organs of the body

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of transposition gathered in one view.

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any abnormal position of the organs of the body

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

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for transposition.

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any abnormal position of the organs of the body

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

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

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

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(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"

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the act of reversing the order or place of

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

Example sentences

It's a transposition cipher where the Qs are spaces.

It could just mean that it's a transposition-only cipher.

When you get really fast, almost all typing errors are transposition errors.

You can explain and understand modes, transposition, chords, etc without having to write it down.

I show them some basics of the language and ask them to implement musical operations they already know, such as transposition and inversion.

"During World War I, the German military used a double columnar transposition cipher, changing the keys infrequently.

Then it's encrypted with simple phrase, using substitution, partitioning and transposition.

In equal temperament they're slightly enharmonic, ie adjusted away from ideal harmony in order to allow transposition into different keys.

This gets rid of the explicit transposition, AND in this problem, it lets you compute each element as the dot product of two unit stride vectors, instead of a dot product of an unit stride vector with a nonunit stride vector.

Because you're writing entire words with each stroke, if you accidentally hit the wrong key, you'll be able to reverse the error in a single "delete last stroke" command, rather than having to backspace 20 times to correct a letter transposition error you made several words ago. Qwerty requires commands and variables to be broken down into minuscule portions, with the potential for error occurring each time a key is deployed.