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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



... 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 ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... acquaintance with the mythology of other nations, were made to furnish him with the materials for hastily applying one solution to all the early Jewish histories, which he failed to invalidate by the application of the historic method just described. By an inversion of the argument of the early Christian apologists, he pretended that the early history preserved among the Hebrews was borrowed from the heathens, instead of claiming that the heathen mythology was a trace ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... is the case with Hungary, Russia, the Danubian Principalities, North America, etc. Artificial fertilizers, guano in particular, indeed substitute the offal of men and beasts; but many farmers can not obtain the same in sufficient quantity; it is too dear; at any rate, it is an inversion of nature to import manure from great distances, while it is allowed to go ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel
... inversion of parts as a proof of modern pilfering and deliberate change to hide the theft; at least he mentions them, and the "prettier verses," with a note of exclamation (!). {73a} But there are, we repeat, similar inversions in the English and in Herd's old copy, and nobody ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... remedies proposed for the fatal effects of parcellaire division may be reduced to two, which really are but one, the second being the inversion of the first: to raise the mental and moral condition of the workingman by increasing his comfort and dignity; or else, to prepare the way for his future emancipation ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon


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