inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɚ.ʒən/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɜː.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
Forms: form: inversions
Etymology: From Latin inversiōnem.
Senses: glosses: The action of inverting.
glosses: The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: temperature inversion
glosses: A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
glosses: A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
examples: raw_tags: with an auxiliary verb
text: Inversion takes place in the sentence 'Is she here?' — 'is', the predicate, is before 'she', the subject.
raw_tags: for the purpose of emphasis
text: Inversion takes place in the sentence 'Never have I done that.' — 'have', the predicate, is before 'I', the subject, due to 'never' being the first word of the sentence.
text: Question formation involves the phenomenon commonly known as subject-auxiliary inversion, a change in word order in which the auxiliary moves in front of the subject.
(a) Here we shall describe this phenomenon in terms of movement of the element under INFL into COMP position.
(b) According to this analysis, what looks like an exchanging of positions between the subject and auxiliary (or INFL element, in GB terms) is actually the movement of the INFL element past the subject position into COMP.
(c) INFL-to-COMP movement seems to be triggered by the presence of the [+WH] feature in COMP.
ref: 2007/08, abergs, “INFL-to-COMP movement”, in English Language and Linguistics Online, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2018:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: anastrophe#Noun
hyperbaton
glosses: Deviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
examples: text: We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion.
ref: 1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202:
text: My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings.
ref: 1975, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, page 118:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The catalytic action of invertase.
Derived terms: circle inversion
coinversion
dependency inversion principle
first inversion
inversional
inversion illusion
inversionism
inversionist
inversionless
inversion of control
inversion pair
inversion table
inversion therapy
island of inversion
microinversion
nitrogen inversion
noninversion
paracentric inversion
penile inversion
pericentric inversion
population inversion
pseudoinversion
reinversion
retrograde inversion
rotoinversion
second inversion
sexual inversion
stereoinversion
temperature inversion
third inversion
uninversion
Walden inversion
Related terms: twelve tone technique
serialism