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Transpose

trɑːn(t)ˈspəʊz

Transpose definitions
verb
transpose transposed transposes transposing
  1. 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"

  2. transfer to a different place or context

    "an evacuation order transposed the school from Kent to Shropshire"

    • write or play (music) in a different key or register from the original

      "the basses are transposed down an octave"

    • transfer (a term), with its sign changed, to the other side of an equation
    • translate into another language

      "a sequence of French tales transposed into English"

noun
transpose transposes
  1. a matrix obtained from a given matrix by interchanging each row and the corresponding column

    "the new matrix is called the transpose of A"