Definition of "Transposition" :

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

noun: the act of reversing the order or place of

noun: (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."

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

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

noun: an event in which one thing is substituted for another

noun: any abnormal position of the organs of the body