the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
a uniform movement without rotation
(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
(mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same
(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
the act of reversing the order or place of
(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance; "he wrote a textbook on the electrical effects of transposition"
(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome