inversion
pronunciation
How to pronounce inversion in British English:
UK [ɪnˈvɜ:ʃn]
How to pronounce inversion in American English:
US [ɪnˈvɜrʃn]
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- 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
- (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ll 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
- turning upside down; setting on end
- the act of turning inside out
Word Origin
- inversion (n.)
- 1550s, from Latin inversionem (nominative inversio) "an inversion," noun of action from past participle stem of invertere (see invert).
Example
- 1. Now , however , mr brands notices a strange inversion .
- 2. This scenario is a classic case of priority inversion .
- 3. We 're going through an inversion of scale in computing which is making parallelism and concurrency much more important .
- 4. By applying the dependency inversion the modules can be easily changed by other modules just changing the dependency module .
- 5. In a strange inversion of the crisis to date , the new bail-out plan seems to have helped the weaker peripherals and hurt the stronger ones .