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Definition of Inversions
1. inversion [n] - See also: inversion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inversions
Literary usage of Inversions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"The inversions are figured and named according to par. ... Therefore, the names
of the three inversions merely indicate the intervals from the bass note to ..."
2. Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice by Arthur Foote, Walter Raymond Spalding (1905)
"CHAPTER IX Inversions OF TRIADS Chords of the 6th, and 6-4 Chords 71. EVERY triad
of a major or minor scale may appear in inverted forms, there being two ..."
3. Manual of Harmony: A Practical Guide to Its Study Prepared Especially for by Ernst Friedrich Richter, Alfred Richter (1912)
"In a condensed form, the inversions are as follows: 96 m GT i On comparing these
... Do not forget that in these inversions, just as in those of the triad, ..."
4. Harmony Simplified: A Simple and Systematic Exposition of the Principles of by Frank Hartson Shepard (1896)
"Inversions OF THE CHORD OF THE SEVENTH. 172. We have repeatedly seen the different
... We will now consider the Inversions, which are very similar to the ..."
5. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"A product of two inversions is an involution if and only if the circles are
orthogonal. 5. Of four circles mutually perpendicular by pairs, ..."
6. Elementary Co-ordinate Geometry for Collegiate Use and Private Study by William Benjamin Smith (1886)
"The number of inversions in any permutation is found by counting the ... Thus 2
5 3 1 6 4 is an even permutation containing 6 inversions ; 3 1 2 5 4 6 is an ..."
7. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1884)
"ON THERMO-ELECTRIC Inversions. 78. ... discovery of thermo-electric inversions
having afforded the special foundation of that part of the theory by which I ..."
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