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Inversion   /ɪnvˈərʒən/   Listen
Inversion

noun
1.
The layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer.
2.
Abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth).
3.
A chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa.
4.
(genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed.
5.
The reversal of the normal order of words.  Synonym: anastrophe.
6.
(counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa.
7.
A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex.  Synonym: sexual inversion.
8.
Turning upside down; setting on end.  Synonym: upending.
9.
The act of turning inside out.  Synonyms: eversion, everting.



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"Inversion" Quotes from Famous Books



... is that people should have to go to America again, after coming to Europe! It seems to me an inversion of the order of nature. I think America is a sort of "United" States of Probation, out of which all wise people, being once delivered, and having obtained entrance into this better world, should never be expected to return (sentence irremediably ungrammatical), particularly when they have been ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe
... this eruption covers the countenance of the earth: the animal and the vegetable: one in some degree the inversion of the other: the second rooted to the spot; the first coming detached out of its natal mud, and scurrying abroad with the myriad feet of insects or towering into the heavens on the wings of birds: a thing so inconceivable that, if it be well considered, the heart stops. To what passes with the ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... contempt on the lip of Atta-Kulla-Kulla the council did not immediately acquiesce in his view, and thus for a time flattered the hope of the ada-wehi that they were resting in suspension on the details of this choice argument. There was an illogical inversion of values in the experience of the tribe, and while they could not now accept the worthless figments of long ago, it was not vouchsafed to them to enjoy the substantial merits of the new order of things. Reason, ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... have meant to convey by the remarkable collocation At roseo niueae residebant uertice uittae. Properly, the wreaths are rosy, the locks snow-white; but the colour of the wreaths is so blent with the colour of the locks that each is lost in the other, and an inversion of ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus
... excess of his qualities. Would he continue to appear a genius, then he must continue to display that excess which—so he wished them to believe—alone prevented his brilliant achievements. It was all a curious, vicious inversion. "You could do great things if you didn't drink," crooned the fools. "See how I drink," Gourlay seemed to answer; "that is why I don't do great things. But, mind you, I could do them were it not for this." Thus every glass he tossed off ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown


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