Толковый словарь английского языка - transposition

noun Etymology: Anglo-French transposicion, from Medieval Latin ~-, transpositio, from Latin transponere to transpose Date: 1538 1. an act, process, or instance of transposing or being transposed, the transfer of a segment of DNA from one site to another in the genome, 2. the transfer of any term of an equation from one side over to the other side with a corresponding change of the sign, a mathematical permutation or interchange of two letters or symbols, ~al adjective