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▸ noun: The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
▸ noun: (music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
▸ noun: (music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
▸ noun: (music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
▸ noun: (genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
▸ noun: (meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
▸ noun: A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
▸ noun: (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
▸ noun: (algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
▸ noun: (psychology, obsolete) Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
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eversion,
upending,
anastrophe,
everting,
inverting,
invertend,
inverse,
reinversion,
reversion,
interversion,
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