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transpose verb [ tranˈspəʊz ]

• cause (two or more things) to exchange places.
• "the situation might have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transposed"
Similar: interchange, exchange, switch, swap (round), transfer, reverse, invert, rearrange, reorder, turn about, turn around, change (round), move (around), substitute, trade, alter, convert,
• transfer to a different place or context.
• "an evacuation order transposed the school from Kent to Shropshire"
Similar: shift, relocate, reposition, transplant, move, displace,

transpose noun

• a matrix obtained from a given matrix by interchanging each row and the corresponding column.
• "the new matrix is called the transpose of A"
Origin: late Middle English (also in the sense ‘transform, convert’): from Old French transposer, from trans- ‘across’ + poser ‘to place’.


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