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Inversion

noun

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

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).

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

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

The reversal of the normal order of words. Synonym: anastrophe.

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

A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex. Synonym: sexual inversion.

Turning upside down; setting on end. Synonym: upending.

The act of turning inside out. Synonyms: eversion, everting.

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"Inversion" Quotes from Famous Books

... art and power with which the superstition of the enemy invested them. These oppressed yet dreaded fugitives obtained, naturally enough, the character of the German spirits called Kobold, from which the English goblin and the Scottish bogle, by some inversion and alteration ...

— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott

... such as the common Pecten. We find the same essential parts in each, composed of analogous elements. The eye of the Pecten presents a retina, a cornea, a lens of cellular structure like our own. There is even that peculiar inversion of retinal elements which is not met with, in general, in the retina of the invertebrates. Now, the origin of molluscs may be a debated question, but, whatever opinion we hold, all are agreed that molluscs and vertebrates ...

— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... preparations were, they were not visible to the watchful diplomatic agents who maintained the relations of the Government with the tribesmen. So extraordinary is the inversion of ideas and motives among those people that it may be said that those who know them best, know them least, and the more logical the mind of the student the less he is able to understand of the subject. In any case among these ...

— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill

... in history is announced by the angel chiefly as the reason for Joseph's going on with his marriage. Surely that strange inversion of the apparent importance of the two things speaks for the historical reliableness of the narrative. The purpose in hand is mainly to remove his hesitation and point his course, and he is to take ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... ever since, the women of the Earth have done their utmost to impress indelibly upon my mind—the lesson that woman is but a less lovable, more petulant, more deeply and incurably spoilt child. Your mother's reproach is an exact inversion of the truth. No one could have acted with more utter unselfishness, more devoted kindness, more exquisite delicacy than you have shown in this miserable matter. I could not have believed that even you could have put aside your own feelings so completely, could have recognised so promptly that I ...

— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg

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