Transformation vs Transposition - What's the difference?
transformation | transposition |
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
(politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
(music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
(chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.