Usually means: Reversal of position, order, form.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word inversion:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. inversion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inversion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inversion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inversion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inversion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inversion, inversion: Wordnik
  7. inversion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inversion: Wiktionary
  9. inversion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inversion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inversion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inversion: Dictionary.com
  13. Inversion (artwork), Inversion (computer science), Inversion (disambiguation), Inversion (discrete mathematics), Inversion (evolutionary biology), Inversion (film), Inversion (geology), Inversion (interval), Inversion (kinesiology), Inversion (linguistics), Inversion (meteorology), Inversion (music), Inversion (prosody), Inversion (video game), Inversion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Inversion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inversion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inversion: Rhymezone
  17. Inversion, inversin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inversion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Inversion: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. inversion: Free Dictionary
  21. inversion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inversion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVERSION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inversion: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inversion (meteorology), Inversion (music), inversion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. inversion: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inversion: Idioms

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Inversion: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  3. Inversion: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Inversion: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. inversion: Evolution Glossary
  6. inversion, inversion: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inversion: The Folk File
  2. Inversion: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Inversion: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inversion: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See inversions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action of inverting.
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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