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noun. The act of inverting.

noun. The state of being inverted.

noun. An interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject.

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noun. A rearrangement of tones in which the upper and lower voices of a melody are transposed, as in counterpoint.

noun. A rearrangement of tones in which each interval in a single melody is applied in the opposite direction.

noun. An arrangement of the tones of a chord such that the root is not the lowest pitch, as in the rearrangement of the C-major triad CEG to EGC.

noun. In early psychology, behavior or attitudes in an individual considered typical of the opposite sex, including sexual attraction to members of one's own sex. No longer in technical use.

noun. Conversion of a substance in which the direction of optical rotation is reversed, from the dextrorotatory to the levorotatory or from the levorotatory to the dextrorotatory form.

noun. An atmospheric condition in which the air temperature rises with increasing altitude, holding surface air down and preventing dispersion of pollutants.

noun. A chromosomal rearrangement in which a segment of the chromosome breaks off and reattaches in the reverse direction.

noun. The act of inverting, or the state of being inverted; a turning end for end, upside down, or inside out; any change of order such that the last becomes first and the first last; in general, any reversal of a given order or relation.

noun. Specifically— In grammar, a change of the natural or recognized order of words: as, “of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable,” instead of “impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices.”

noun. In rhetoric, a mode of arguing by which the speaker tries to show that the arguments adduced by an opponent tell against his cause and are favorable to the speaker's.

noun. In music: The process, act, or result of transposing the tones of an interval or chord from their original or normal order. The several inversions of a chord are called first, second, and third respectively. See interval, 5, and chord, 4.

noun. The process, act, or result of repeating a subject or theme with all its upward intervals or steps taken downward, and vice versa. Also called imitation by inversion or in contrary motion. (See imitation, 3.) Retrograde inversion, however, is the same as retrograde imitation (which see, under imitation, 3).

noun. In double counterpoint, the transposition of the upper voice-part below the lower, and vice versa. Inversion is the test of the correctness of the composition. The transposition may be either of an octave or of any other interval.

noun. In mathematics: A turning backward; a contrary rule of operation: as, to prove an answer by inversion, as division by multiplication or addition by subtraction.

noun. Change in the order of the terms.

noun. Certain transformations. Also the operation of reversing the direction of every line in a body without altering its length.

noun. In geology, the folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a way that the order of succession appears reversed.

noun. Milit., a movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.

noun. In chem., a decomposition of certain sugars and other carbohydrates, induced by the action of a ferment or dilute acid by which the elements of water are added to a carbohydrate, each molecule of which breaks up into two molecules of a different carbohydrate. Thus, cane-sugar in solution, when heated with a dilute acid, takes up water and breaks up into equal parts of dextrose and levulose. See invert-sugar.

noun. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

noun. A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.

noun. A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.

noun. A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third.

noun. A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse.

noun. A change of the usual order of words or phrases

noun. A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.

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noun. Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.

noun. Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass.

noun. Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa.

noun. Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places.

noun. The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.

noun. The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or enzymes (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).

noun. A reversal of the usual temperature gradient of the atmosphere, in which the temperature increases with increased altitude, rather than falling. Called also temperature inversion.

noun. The conversion of direct current into alternating current; the inverse of rectification. See inverted rectifier.

noun. A portion of the genome in which the DNA has been turned around, and runs in a direction opposite to its normal direction, and consequently the genes are present in the reverse of their usual order.

noun. the action of inverting

noun. being upside down, in an inverted state

noun. being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state

noun. The move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.

noun. The reversal of an interval.

noun. The reversal of the pitch contour.

noun. The reversal of a pitch class succession, such as a contrapuntal line or melody.

noun. The subtraction of pitch classes in a set from twelve, which maps intervals onto their complements with respect to 0, and preserves interval classes, symbolized IX (X being the transposition that is inverted.).

noun. a segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome

"Simply put, when we hear the term inversion on the news we are generally talking about a temperature inversion."

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serialism  twelve tone technique  

paracentric inversion  pericentric inversion  

abnormalcy  abnormality  atmospheric phenomenon  chemical action  chemical change  

Persian  aspersion  aversion  conversion  dispersion  

anomaly  antipathy  blindness  contradiction  decomposition  

about-face  addition  approximation  differentiation  division  

inverse  inverted rectifier