renversementn.
/rɒ̃vɛəsˈmɒ̃/, U.S. /ˌrɑnˌvɛ(ə)rsˈmɑn/ (in sense 2)Brit. /rɛnˈvəːsm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌrɛnˈvərsm(ə)nt/ 1. The action of reversing or inverting something; the result of this.In later use not fully naturalized in English.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > reversal of natural or proper order
somersault1530
inversion1546
hysteron proteron1584
preposterousness1607
renversement1610
reversala1626
inverse1630
reversement1720
topsy-turvying1807
topsy-turvification1840
upending1968
1610 G. Marcelline Triumphs King James 87 Their divers Anagrams, Metatheses, and Renversements, according to the Tmurah and Siruphs of the Haebrewes.
1696 tr. G. Croese Gen. Hist. Quakers ii. ii. 11 They who offended no Man were injur'd by all... This seems..to be such a Metamorphosis and Renversement of things, as cannot but prove matter of Wonder and Astonishment to all good and wise Men.
1744 J. Fothergill in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 23 This Resin with the Trees which afforded it were buried in the Earth by the Deluge, or by some such violent Renversement.
1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra 60 'Tis a total renversement of the order of nature.
1834 G. Browning Domest. Financial Condition Great Brit. i. i. 15 Has not the very treaty of Vienna..been shaken to its very foundation? and is it not in rapid progress towards a complete renversement?
1954 W. Faulkner Fable 343 The car making the last renversement because now it could go no farther.
1973 Times 2 Jan. (Forward into Europe Suppl.) p. xii/6 Perhaps the Henry Moore retrospective..and the Francis Bacon exhibition..herald a renversement.
2005 L. M. G. Zerilli Feminism & Abyss Freedom ii. 80 It reduces renversement to the destruction of the old order and the founding of the new, thereby distorting the fundamental achievement of Wittig's text.
2. Aeronautics (originally U.S.). A manoeuvre in which the direction of the aircraft is rapidly reversed, usually consisting of a half loop followed immediately by a half roll. Now rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > movement in reverse direction
reversec1487
retrogression1604
retrogradationa1609
renversement1918
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > [noun] > stunt > specific
loop1900
looping1914
barrel roll1917
falling leaf1917
renversement1918
vrille1918
slow roll1923
slow-rolling1923
aileron roll1924
flick roll1928
wing-over1928
lazy eight1930
bunt1932
aileron turn1942
victory roll1942
rollover1945
twinkle roll1962
rollback1978
1918 B. A. Molter Knights of Air iii. 85 If one of the group wishes to leave the formation..he leaves his position, comes alongside the chief and executes a renversement, or ‘Immelman [sic] turn’.
1920 H. Bingham Explorer in Air Service 148 The pilot learned the renversement, the quickest method of doing an aerial ‘about-face’.
1956 U.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.
1966 E. 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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