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TRANSPOSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transposed mean?
• TRANSPOSED (adjective)
The adjective TRANSPOSED has 1 sense:
1. turned about in order or relation
Familiarity information: TRANSPOSED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turned about in order or relation
Synonyms:
converse; reversed; transposed
Context example:
transposed letters
Similar:
backward (directed or facing toward the back or rear)
Context examples
You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A surgical procedure in which there is full-thickness excision of the malignant breast tumor and surrounding breast parenchyma to allow resection with wide surgical margins, while the remaining fibroglandular breast tissue is transposed to preserve the breast shape and cosmetic appearance in the best possible way.
(Oncoplastic Partial Mastectomy/Lumpectomy with Oncoplastic Closure, NCI Thesaurus)
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