inversion
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1 inversion
The layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer.
Roget 577: ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence etc. adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; ... meer laten zien
Roget 237: contraposition†, opposition; polarity; inversion etc. 218; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South. antonym, ... meer laten zien
Roget 145: reversion, return; revulsion. turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm. alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; inversion etc. ... meer laten zien
Roget 140: change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, ... meer laten zien
Roget 14: contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism etc. (opposition) 708; clashing, repugnance. inversion etc. ... meer laten zien
Roget 61: derangement etc. v.; disorder etc. 59; evection†, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization†; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; ... meer laten zien
Pools: inwersja temperatury, inwersja, inwersja termiczna
2 inversion
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).
3 inversion
A chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa.
Nederlands: inversie
4 inversion
genetics A kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed.
5 inversion
6 inversion
counterpoint A variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa.
7 inversion
A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex.
synoniem: sexual inversion.
8 inversion
Turning upside down; setting on end.
synoniem: upending.
Nederlands: interversie, inversie, omkering, reversie
9 inversion
The act of turning inside out.
synoniemen: eversion, everting.
Roget 218: inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition etc. 237†; contrariety etc. 14; reversal; ... meer laten zien
Pools: wywracanie
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: about-face, addition, approximation, differentiation, division, equation, evolution, extrapolation, integration, interpolation, involution, multiplication, notation, practice, proportion, reduction, reversal, reverse, reversion, subtraction ... meer laten zien.
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