rearrangement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act or result of arranging people or things again in a different order or pattern

   A rearrangement of the laboratory benches created more working space.

2. 2
   noun

   a structural change in a chromosome or molecule caused by parts being moved, inverted, deleted, or exchanged

   The microscope image revealed a chromosome rearrangement after irradiation.

From rearrange + -ment, or re- ("again, differently") + arrangement. Its scientific senses apply the ordinary idea of a changed order to atoms, molecules, chromosomes, and other structured systems.

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