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renˈversement
[a. F. renversement: see renverse v. and -ment.]
The act of reversing or inverting; the result of this. Now spec. in Aeronaut. (orig. U.S.), an aeroplane manœuvre consisting of a half-loop effected simultaneously with a half-turn (see also quot. 1956).
1610Marcellini Triumphs Jas. I 87 Their divers Anagrams, Metatheses, and Renversements, according to the Tmurah and Siruphs of the Haebrewes. 1744Fothergill in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 23 This Resin with the Trees which afforded it were buried in the Earth by the Deluge, or by some such violent Renversement. 1763Stukeley Palæogr. Sacr. 60 'Tis a total renversement of the order of nature. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 343 The car making the last renversement because now it could go no farther. 1956U.S. Air Force Dict. 435/2 Renversement,..any airplane maneuver or performance in which the airplane is made to reverse direction, as in a chandelle, Immelmann turn, or wingover. 1966E. V. Rickenbacker Rickenbacker (1968) vi. 106, I immediately put my Spad into a renversement—pulled the stick straight back to start a loop and simultaneously rolled it over in a half turn. 1973Times 2 Jan. (Forward into Europe Suppl.) p. xii/6 Perhaps the Henry Moore retrospective..and the Francis Bacon exhibition..herald a renversement. |