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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
non-transposition
refers to a three-phase electric power transmission line whose conductors are not transposed See transposition.
transposition
(1) the practice of twisting a three-phase power line so that, for example, phase A takes the place on the tower formerly occupied by phase B, phase B takes the place of phase C, and phase C occupies the former position of phase A.
(2) a point on a three-phase electric power line where the conductors are physically transposed for purposes of improving circuit balance transputer a class of CPU designed and manufactured by Inmos Corporation. The transputer was specifically designed to be used in arrays for parallel processing.