inversion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Latin inversiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: inversions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of inverting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion.
Equal relationships can only exist between equals. Inversion is the most positive identity possible in the situation as it is now.
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.
gloss: The catalytic action of invertase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: twelve tone technique
serialism
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 轉位 /转位
roman: zhuǎnwèi
lang: French
word: renversement
lang: Japanese
word: 転回形
lang: Japanese
word: インバージョン