Transposition

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Transposition may mean:

• Transposition (cardiac), a congenital heart defect with malformation of any of the major vessels.
• Transposition (chess), different moves or a different move order leading to the same position, especially during the openings.
• Transposition (cryptography), an elementary cryptographic operation
• Transposition (genetics), a mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
• Transposition (law), the implementation of an international treaty through incorporation of a directive into a state's domestic law.
• Transposition (logic), a rule of replacement in philosophical logic
• Transposition (mathematics), a permutation which exchanges two elements and keeps all others fixed
• Transposition (music), moving a note or collection of notes up or down in pitch by a constant interval
• Transpose of a matrix, e.g. written A^T
• Transposition table, used in computer games to speed up the search of the game tree
• Transposition (telecommunications)
• Transposition, docking, and extraction an orbital maneuver performed on the Apollo lunar missions