transposition
Example Sentences
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It’s based on a novel written in the 1890s by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, and the adaptation’s transposition of time and place comes off as anachronistic and unconvincing.
Interestingly, genes that mapped near the hypothetical proteins involved activities in DNA mobilization and transposition, meaning the ability to move genes into, around or out of the bacterial genome.
From Science Daily
Those connections come vibrantly alive in this script, which Smith claims “is, for the most part, a direct transposition of the Wife of Bath’s prologue and tale.”
From Washington Post
Such street-to-stage transpositions can, and usually do, go wrong in a hundred ways.
From New York Times
But here the character transpositions are half the pleasure.
From Washington Post
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