inversion
Meanings
noun
- The action of inverting.
- The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
- The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
- The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
- The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
- A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
- A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
- A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
- 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.
- An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
- Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
- The catalytic action of invertase.
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From Latin inversiōnem.
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