Transposition

1. n. A change of a composition into another key.
2. n. The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.
3. n. The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.
4. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.