inversion
Nouns
- (n) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- (n) 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)
- (n) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- (n) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
- (n) the reversal of the normal order of words anastrophe,
- (n) (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- (n) a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex sexual inversion,
- (n) turning upside down; setting on end upending,
- (n) the act of turning inside out everting, eversion,