Usually means: Deliberate rearrangement of sentence elements.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word hyperbaton:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperbaton: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyperbaton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyperbaton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyperbaton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyperbaton: Vocabulary.com
  6. hyperbaton: Wordnik
  7. hyperbaton: Wiktionary
  8. hyperbaton: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Hyperbaton, hyperbaton: Dictionary.com
  10. hyperbaton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Hyperbaton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Hyperbaton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hyperbaton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hyperbaton: Rhymezone
  15. Hyperbaton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hyperbaton: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. hyperbaton: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hyperbaton: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. hyperbaton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hyperbaton: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. Hyperbaton: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  4. HYPERBATON: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyperbaton: A Word A Day

(Note: See hyperbatons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hyperbaton)

noun:  (grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
noun:  (rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.

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