transpose

英 [tr?ns'p??z; trɑ?ns-; -nz-] 美[tr?n'spoz]

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數:?transposes;過去式:?transposed;過去分詞:?transposed;現在分詞:?transposing;名詞:?transposition;

1. trans- + pos- + -e.
2. 含義：place over, put over, put through, put across.

transpose: transpose: see position
transpose (v.): late 14c., from Old French transposer "transfer, remove; present, render symbolically" (14c.), from Latin transponere (past participle transpositus) "to place over, set over," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). Form altered in French on model of poser "to put, place." Sense of "put music in a different key" is from c. 1600. Related: Transposed; transposing.

1. She could play any piece of music she heard and transpose it into any key.: 她能把聽過的任何樂曲變以任何調演奏出來。

2. Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next.: 遺傳工程師將某一生物的小段遺傳物質調換到另一生物，或與其互換。

3. Many people inadvertently transpose digits of the ZIP code.: 很多人疏忽之下會顛倒郵政編碼中數字的順序。

4. Taking the transpose of both sides does not change the left - hand side of the equation.: 兩邊均進行轉置,方程的左邊不變.

5. If A is the mxn matrix, then the nxm matrix is called the transpose of A.: 如果A是mxn矩陣, 那么nxm矩陣為A的轉置矩陣.