Definition of inversion

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Inversion (n.) A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable, instead of, impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices..

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Invert :: Invert (a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on..
Anallagmatic :: Anallagmatic (a.) Not changed in form by inversion.
Anastrophe :: Anastrophe (n.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa..
Invert :: Invert (v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third..
Derivative :: Derivative (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord..
Purl :: Purl (n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed..
Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..
Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..
Entropium :: Entropium (n.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
Inverted :: Inverted (a.) Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable, instead of, impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices..
Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence..
Inversely :: Inversely (adv.) In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.
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