The difference between Transfer and Transpose

When used as nouns, transfer means the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another, whereas transpose means in matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.

When used as verbs, transfer means to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another, whereas transpose means to reverse or change the order of (two or more things).

Transpose is also adjective with the meaning: in matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix.

check bellow for the other definitions of Transfer and Transpose

  1. Transfer as a verb (transitive):

    To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

    Examples:

    "to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion"

  2. Transfer as a verb (transitive):

    To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

    Examples:

    "to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone"

  3. Transfer as a verb (intransitive):

    To be or become transferred.

  4. Transfer as a verb (transitive, legal):

    To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

    Examples:

    "The title to land is transferred by deed."

  1. Transfer as a noun (uncountable):

    The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.

  2. Transfer as a noun (countable):

    An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.

  3. Transfer as a noun (countable):

    A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.

  4. Transfer as a noun:

    A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.

  5. Transfer as a noun (medicine):

    A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

  6. Transfer as a noun (genetics):

    The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

  1. Transpose as a verb (transitive):

    To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.

  2. Transpose as a verb (transitive, music):

    To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key

  3. Transpose as a verb (transitive, algebra):

    To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.

  4. Transpose as a verb (transitive, mathematics):

    To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.

  1. Transpose as an adjective (adjective, algebra):

    In matrix mathematics, a matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix.

  1. Transpose as a noun (adjective, algebra):

    In matrix mathematics, the resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.

  1. Transpose as a noun (linear algebra):

    In matrix mathematics, the process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.

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