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Transposition vs Transportation - What's the difference?

transposition | transportation |

As nouns the difference between transposition and transportation

is that transposition is the act or process of transposing or interchanging while transportation is transportation.

transposition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * transpositional

    Related terms

    * transpose

    See also

    * twelve tone technique * serialism

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

    transportation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
    • We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
  • (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
    • Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
  • (US) A means of conveyance.
    • Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
  • (US) A ticket or fare.
  • * 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
    • Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
    (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
    Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."