transpose

vt. 调换；移项；颠倒顺序

vi. 进行变换

n. 转置阵

英文词源

transpose: transpose: see position
transpose (v.): late 14c., from Old French transposer "transfer, remove; present, render symbolically" (14c.), from Latin transponere (past participle transpositus) "to place over, set over," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). Form altered in French on model of poser "to put, place." Sense of "put music in a different key" is from c. 1600. Related: Transposed; transposing.

1. trans- + pos- + -e.2. 含义：place over, put over, put through, put across.

1. She could play any piece of music she heard and transpose it into any key.: 她能把听过的任何乐曲变以任何调演奏出来。

2. Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next.: 遗传工程师将某一生物的小段遗传物质调换到另一生物，或与其互换。

3. Many people inadvertently transpose digits of the ZIP code.: 很多人疏忽之下会颠倒邮政编码中数字的顺序。

4. Taking the transpose of both sides does not change the left - hand side of the equation.: 两边均进行转置,方程的左边不变.

5. If A is the mxn matrix, then the nxm matrix is called the transpose of A.: 如果A是mxn矩阵, 那么nxm矩阵为A的转置矩阵.