It takes an intellectual effort to make that transposition. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
He wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The effect of their transposition is inactivation of genes. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1983 - Press Release] Reference
This transposition from the Welsh stage to Aztlan depended first on the a priori sameness of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism] Reference
You know I will be on treatments for the rest of my life. †“Jen, the punishment for transposition is removal. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2005 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
That numbered phrase was called a transposition-key. From Wordnik.com. [between silk and cyanide]
Jerrick suffered from what the surgeon called transposition of the great arteries. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2005] Reference
The movement of the testis can thus be accurately described as a transposition or dislocation. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
The only sound to accompany the transposition was a brief sibilant hiss as molecules were taken apart. From Wordnik.com. [The I Inside]
It's what they call a transposition cipher. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference
Apparently some kind of transposition has taken place. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror, Mirror] Reference
Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University] Reference
In another edition, the transposition can be effected. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
SANCHEZ: The hair transposition, just strange things that you never do. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008] Reference
It is suggested that a transposition of clauses may throw light on the meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference
The sense will be perhaps more evident by a mere transposition, preserving every word. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850] Reference
By such transposition, the rhymes are made alternate, and the concluding rhymes more emphatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Houston was born with a congenital heart defect that was "a transposition of the great arteries.". From Wordnik.com. [Health Care and Etymology] Reference
It will be seen that this process is not emancipation, but merely transposition, or change of locality. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
Says Hagerman, "If that isn't the most bizarre transposition of power structures, I don't know what is.". From Wordnik.com. [Stop And Go Start-Ups] Reference
Of course, the transposition need not be begun until all the letters are set apart in their proper groups. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
Follow the same process of grouping and transposition in forming each of the remaining words of the proverb. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
Conversion is an immediate inference grounded On the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
"An expansion upon the Paonese vitality-word praesens, with an effort at transposition into Breakness attitudes.". From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
The alteration of the premisses is effected by means of immediate inference and, where necessary, of transposition. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
For the definition of a sentence, and the transposition of its words and members, see pages 119, 124, 128, and 167. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
So you're saying it's not about the transposition of letters, it's really about what other people may have searched for?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2006] Reference
In the above examples the converse of E looks as if it had undergone no change but the mere transposition of the alternative. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Of course, in this case "Dutch" does not mean people in wooden shoes, rather the transposition of "deutsche" -- or German-speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of Lancaster County, PA] Reference
(Gounod), are all written for soprano, and when sung in Italian require not only transposition of the principal airs, but the use of. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
But this transposition of talent, and transition of gain, is no more than arose from the substitution of railroads for turnpike roads. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
I think they may, by understanding the passage in question as though a transposition had taken place between the words "least" and "when". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850] Reference
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