Meaning & Definition of Inversion in English
Inversion
noun
1. The layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- inversion
2. 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)
- inversion
3. A chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- inversion
4. (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
- inversion
5. The reversal of the normal order of words
- anastrophe,
- inversion
6. (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- inversion
7. A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- inversion,
- sexual inversion
8. Turning upside down
- Setting on end
- inversion,
- upending
9. The act of turning inside out
- inversion,
- eversion,
- everting