inversion🔊

The action of inverting.

The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out{{,}} or in a reverse sequence.

(music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.

(music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.

(music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.

(genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.

(meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).

A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.

(grammar) {{cap|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.

(algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.

(obsolete) {{cap|homosexuality}}, particularly in early psychoanalysis.