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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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... which, no doubt, the popularity of this class of beverage is largely due. Invert sugar is prepared by the action either of acid or of yeast on cane sugar. The chemical equation representing the conversion (or inversion) of cane ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

... Principalities, North America, etc. Artificial fertilizers, guano in particular, indeed substitute the offal of men and beasts; but many farmers can not obtain the same in sufficient quantity; it is too dear; at any rate, it is an inversion of nature to import manure from great distances, while it is allowed ...

— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... and hospitality, was held in high reputation, assuming, in these respects, the attitude of a royal court in the northern parts of the kingdom; and the family were regarded with such veneration and esteem that the following harmless inversion was familiar "as household words:"—"God save the Earl of Derby and the King;" the general feeling and opinion thereby apparent being love to their lord and loyalty to ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... acquaintance with the mythology of other nations, were made to furnish him with the materials for hastily applying one solution to all the early Jewish histories, which he failed to invalidate by the application of the historic method just described. By an inversion of the argument of the early Christian apologists, he pretended that the early history preserved among the Hebrews was borrowed from the heathens, instead of claiming that the heathen mythology was a trace of Hebrew tradition; and, with a view ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... man and the crocodile are difficult to understand, the more so as the tale breaks off in the midst of that part. It appears also as if there had been some inversion of the paragraphs; for, first, we read that the wife would not let the prince go alone, and one goes with him toward Egypt, and the crocodile of the Nile (apparently) is mentioned; then he is said to be sitting ...

— Egyptian Tales, Second Series - Translated from the Papyri • W. M. Flinders Petrie

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