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transposable, a.|trɑːnsˈpəʊzəb(ə)l, træns-| Also transposible. [f. transpose v. + -able.] Capable of being transposed; interchangeable. Hence transposaˈbility.
1835J. B. Robertson tr. Schlegel's Philos. of Hist. I. iii. 95 Instead of the regular art of printing with transposeable letters..this people [sc. the Chinese] make use of a species of lithography, which, to all essential purposes is the same. 1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic vi. 122 The whole term is always transposible. 1879Webster Suppl., Transposable. 1881Armstrong in Nature 8 Sept. 450/2 Heat, electricity and mechanical action, are all equivalent and transposable forms of energy. 1903A. R. Wallace Man's Place in Universe x. 195 The most important element in protoplasm..which confers upon it..its extreme mobility and transposibility, is nitrogen. |