transposition
transposition is a valid 13-letter word worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
What does transposition mean?
Any abnormal position of the organs of the body.
An event in which one thing is substituted for another.
The act of reversing the order or place of.
(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance.
“he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition”
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome.
(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign.
(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards.