REARRANGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rearrangement mean? 

• REARRANGEMENT (noun)
  The noun REARRANGEMENT has 1 sense:

1. changing an arrangement

  Familiarity information: REARRANGEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REARRANGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing an arrangement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rearrangement" is a kind of...):

arrangement; arranging; transcription (the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rearrangement"):

juggle; juggling (the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression)

musical chairs (a rearrangement that has no practical effect or significance)

reordering (a rearrangement in a different order)

transposition ((electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance)

Derivation:

rearrange (put into a new order or arrangement)

 Context examples 

This rearrangement is associated with extra-nodal presentation of marginal zone B-cell lymphoma.

(BIRC3/MALT1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Changes in this protein cause many breaks, rearrangements, and other mutations in the DNA.

(Bloom syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

This rearrangement is associated with numerous B-cell malignancies.

(CCND1/IGHG1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in cytoskeleton rearrangement andmetastasis suppression.

(Metastasis-Suppressor KiSS-1, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with CML-like myeloproliferative disease.

(BCR/PDGFRA Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with myeloproliferative disorder.

(BCR/JAK2 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

(BCR/ABL1 Fusion Gene p190, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

(BCR/ABL1 Fusion Gene p230, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with 8p11 myeloproliferative disorder.

(BCR/FGFR1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia.

(MLL/ARHGAP26 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)