Meaning oftransposein English

Verb

1. reverse or swap the order; interchange items
   To transpose the letters, simply swap their positions.
2. rewrite music in a different key
   The musician had to transpose the song to a lower key.
3. move terms in an equation; change sign
   When solving the equation, we need to transpose the variables.
4. rearrange matrix elements; swap rows and columns
   In linear algebra, we can transpose a matrix by swapping its rows and columns.