transposition

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“It’s possible, even when documents are uploaded digitally, that a preparer could have multiple windows or files open and make a transposition error,” said Thomas Gorczynski, a tax professional and enrolled agent with the IRS.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

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 • Oct. 13, 2023

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 • Feb. 15, 2023

The following pentatonic scale, for example, is not simply another transposition of the "black key" pentatonic scale; the pattern of intervals between the notes is different.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones