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Definition of Inversion

1. Noun. The layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer.

2. Noun. Abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth).

3. Noun. A chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa.

4. Noun. (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed.

5. Noun. The reversal of the normal order of words.

6. Noun. (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa.

7. Noun. A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex.

8. Noun. Turning upside down; setting on end.

9. Noun. The act of turning inside out.

Definition of Inversion

1. n. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

Definition of Inversion

1. Noun. the action of inverting ¹

2. Noun. being upside down, in an inverted state ¹

3. Noun. being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state ¹

4. Noun. (music) The move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave. ¹

5. Noun. (music) The reversal of an interval. ¹

6. Noun. (music) The reversal of the pitch contour. ¹

7. Noun. (music) The reversal of a pitch class succession, such as a contrapuntal line or melody. ¹

8. Noun. (music) The subtraction of pitch classes in a set from twelve, which maps intervals onto their complements with respect to 0, and preserves interval classes, symbolized IX (X being the transposition that is inverted.). ¹

9. Noun. (genetics) a segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome ¹

10. Noun. (weather) An increase of air temperature with increase in altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air). When an inversion exists, there are no convection currents and wind speeds are below 5 knots. The atmosphere is stable and normally is considered the most favorable state for ground release of chemical agents. ¹

11. Noun. (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis. ¹

12. Noun. (psychology) (obsolete) an outdated term for homosexuality, particularly popular in early psychoanalysis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inversion

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Medical Definition of Inversion

1. 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third. 3. An aberration in which a chromosomal segment is deleted and reinserted in the same place but turned 180 degrees from its original orientation, so that the gene sequence for the segment is reversed with respect to that of the rest of the chromosome. 4. A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse. 5. Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc. Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass. 6. The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed. 7. The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose). The terms invert and inversion, in this sense, owe their meaning to the fact that the plane of polarization of light, which is rotated to the right by cane sugar, is turned toward the left by levulose. See: invert. Origin: L. Inversio: cf. F. Inversion. Source: Websters Dictionary (04 Jul 1999)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inversion

inverse matrix inverse ocular bobbing inverse square law inverse symmetry inverse syntropy inverse system inverse trigonometric function inverse trigonometric functions inverse video inversed

inversed jaw-winking syndrome inversely inversely proportional inverses inversing inversion heterozygote inversion of chromosomes inversion of control inversion of the uterus inversion pair

inversion pairs inversion recovery inversion table inversion tables inversion therapy inversionless inversions inversive

Literary usage of Inversion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The real inversion plane. In a real Euclidean plane an inversion has been seen to ... An inversion, therefore, is strictly one to one if we regard it as a ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"Hence, if we know the distribution of electricity on a conductor when insulated in open space and charged to the potential P, we can find by inversion the ..."

3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"18 inversion. instances of the effective use of this contrivance —as in the ' Well-tempered Clavier ' Nos. 6 and 8 of Part I. Mendelssohn also uses it in ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Des causes d'irréductibilité dans l'inversion utérine et de leur traitement. ... JH Vaginal Hysterectomy for Irreducible inversion of the Uterus of ..."

5. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"inversion OF THE UTERUS. inversion may be defined as a turning inside ont of ... There are several degrees of inversion, varying from a mere depression of a ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1908)
"inversion OF THE UTERUS. inversion of the uterus is the partial or ... The difference between partial and complete inversion is simply one of degree. ..."

7. A Treatise on Counterpoint & Fugue by Luigi Cherubini, Joseph Bennett (1884)
"In learning how to construct this counterpoint, it must be known what are the intervals to be avoided, in order that the inversion may be correct. ..."

8. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The real inversion plane. In a real Euclidean plane an inversion has been seen to ... An inversion, therefore, is strictly one to one if we regard it as a ..."

9. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"Hence, if we know the distribution of electricity on a conductor when insulated in open space and charged to the potential P, we can find by inversion the ..."

10. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"18 inversion. instances of the effective use of this contrivance —as in the ' Well-tempered Clavier ' Nos. 6 and 8 of Part I. Mendelssohn also uses it in ..."

11. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Des causes d'irréductibilité dans l'inversion utérine et de leur traitement. ... JH Vaginal Hysterectomy for Irreducible inversion of the Uterus of ..."

12. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"inversion OF THE UTERUS. inversion may be defined as a turning inside ont of ... There are several degrees of inversion, varying from a mere depression of a ..."

13. The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1908)
"inversion OF THE UTERUS. inversion of the uterus is the partial or ... The difference between partial and complete inversion is simply one of degree. ..."

14. A Treatise on Counterpoint & Fugue by Luigi Cherubini, Joseph Bennett (1884)
"In learning how to construct this counterpoint, it must be known what are the intervals to be avoided, in order that the inversion may be correct. ..."

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