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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•ver•sion /ɪnˈvɜrʒən, -ʃən/USA pronunciation n. - [uncountable] an act or instance of inverting;
the state of being inverted. - [countable] anything inverted.
- Grammar[countable] a reversal of the usual order of words, as in the placement of the subject after an auxiliary verb in a question.
- Meteorology[countable] a reversal in the normal atmospheric conditions affecting temperature rate, in which the temperature rises at higher altitudes rather than falling.
See -vert-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•ver•sion (in vûr′zhən, -shən),USA pronunciation n. - an act or instance of inverting.
- the state of being inverted.
- anything that is inverted.
- Rhetoricreversal of the usual or natural order of words;
anastrophe. - Grammarany change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as "When will you go?'' and "How beautiful is the rose!''
- Anatomy, Pathologythe turning inward of a part, as the foot.
- Chemistry
- Chemistrya hydrolysis of certain carbohydrates, as cane sugar, that results in a reversal of direction of the rotatory power of the carbohydrate solution, the plane of polarized light being bent from right to left or vice versa.
- a reaction in which a starting material of one optical configuration forms a product of the opposite configuration.
- Music and Dance
- the process or result of transposing the tones of an interval or chord so that the original bass becomes an upper voice.
- (in counterpoint) the transposition of the upper voice part below the lower, and vice versa.
- presentation of a melody in contrary motion to its original form.
- Psychologyassumption of the sexual role of the opposite sex;
homosexuality. - Geneticsa type of chromosomal aberration in which the position of a segment of the chromosome is changed in such a way that the linear order of the genes is reversed. Cf. chromosomal aberration.
- Phoneticsretroflexion (def. 3).
- MeteorologyAlso called atmospheric inversion, temperature inversion. a reversal in the normal temperature lapse rate, the temperature rising with increased elevation instead of falling.
- Electricitya converting of direct current into alternating current.
- Mathematicsthe operation of forming the inverse of a point, curve, function, etc.
adj. - pertaining to or associated with inversion therapy or the apparatus used in it:inversion boots.
- Latin inversiōn- (stem of inversiō) a turning in. See inverse, -ion
- 1545–55
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: inversion /ɪnˈvɜːʃən/ n - the act of inverting or state of being inverted
- something inverted, esp a reversal of order, mutual functions, etc: an inversion of their previous relationship
Also called: anastrophe the reversal of a normal order of words- the conversion of a dextrorotatory solution of sucrose into a laevorotatory solution of glucose and fructose by hydrolysis
- any similar reaction in which the optical properties of the reactants are opposite to those of the products
- the process or result of transposing the notes of a chord (esp a triad) such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part. When the bass note is the third of the triad, the resulting chord is the first inversion; when it is the fifth, the resulting chord is the second inversion
- the modification of an interval in which the higher note becomes the lower or the lower one the higher
- abnormal positioning of an organ or part, as in being upside down or turned inside out
- the adoption of the role or characteristics of the opposite sex
- another word for homosexuality
- an abnormal condition in which the layer of air next to the earth's surface is cooler than an overlying layer
- an operation by which each digit of a binary number is changed to the alternative digit, as 10110 to 01001
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