transposition vs reordering

transposition and reordering both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
transposition	Yes	No	No	No
reordering	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, reordering is a hypernym of transposition; that is, reordering is a word with a broader meaning than transposition:

transposition (noun)	reordering (noun)
the act of reversing the order or place of	a rearrangement in a different order
(music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
any abnormal position of the organs of the body