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UK
/ɪnvˈɜːʃən/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈvɝʒən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɝʒən/ ]
NOUN
- the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- turning upside down; setting on end
- the act of turning inside out
- (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- the reversal of the normal order of words
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
- 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)
How To Use inversion In A Sentence
- The result of this inversion is for Chayes a new transcendentalism, one in which "the man raises himself to a level above both the human and the mundane natural" (Shelley 624). Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
- This inversion technique takes into account atmospheric effects on the radiation and spatial variations in the surface emissivity and backscatter.
- The panic I felt was the risk of fact obliteration, or an inversion of truths, all the truths I had known. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
- This summer, I realized I was the servant and it the master and resolved this inversion of the natural order in Kirkian fashion, by taking a sledgehammer to it.
- The principal explanation lies in the obscene moral inversion of victim culture.
- Why should it be this emotional scale (as opposed to joy vs. pain, or pride vs. envy) whose expressions are subject to positive-to-negative inversion?
- Except for the temperature inversion between 0 and 1 km altitude, these profiles are characterized by a classical decrease with increasing altitude.
- In fact several inversions have been found to form clines with higher frequencies at low latitudes near the equator.
- Pericentric inversion of chromosome 9 was seen in one azoospermic patient.
- No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants