Inversion
noun
The action of inverting something or the state of being inverted.
His natural inversion of our order of things gratifies his pride
noun
Change of position to the opposite.
In English, inversion commonly happens in questions and the verb is placed before the subject
Often appears as...
- subject-verb inversion
- negative inversion
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Academic
noun
A treatment process aimed at freeing the body of harmful toxins.
Inversion therapy is a technique where you are suspended upside down
Often appears as...
- inversion therapy
- inversion table
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Technical
noun
A reversal of the usual order of words.
The poem uses inversion to create a unique rhythm
Often appears as...
- inversion in poetry
- word inversion
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Literary
noun
A process where a gas or heat goes from a high to low temperature area.
A temperature inversion in the atmosphere can trap pollution near the ground
Often appears as...
- temperature inversion
- inversion layer
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Technical
noun
The breaking of a chromosome leading to a change in the direction of the genetic material.
The most common type of chromosomal structural abnormality is the inversion
Often appears as...
- genetic inversion
- chromosomal inversion
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Technical
noun
The action of inverting something or the state of being inverted.
His natural inversion of our order of things gratifies his pride
noun
Change of position to the opposite.
In English, inversion commonly happens in questions and the verb is placed before the subject
Often appears as...
- subject-verb inversion
- negative inversion
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A treatment process aimed at freeing the body of harmful toxins.
Inversion therapy is a technique where you are suspended upside down
Often appears as...
- inversion therapy
- inversion table
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A reversal of the usual order of words.
The poem uses inversion to create a unique rhythm
Often appears as...
- inversion in poetry
- word inversion
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A process where a gas or heat goes from a high to low temperature area.
A temperature inversion in the atmosphere can trap pollution near the ground
Often appears as...
- temperature inversion
- inversion layer
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The breaking of a chromosome leading to a change in the direction of the genetic material.
The most common type of chromosomal structural abnormality is the inversion
Often appears as...
- genetic inversion
- chromosomal inversion
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical Representation
In arts and crafts, 'inversion' often refers to flipping an object's orientation.
The sculpture featured the inversion of a tree, with roots skyward.
Pro Tip 2/2Common in Puzzles
'Inversion' is a concept in puzzles that requires turning elements upside down to solve.
Solve this maze through inversion; start at the end and work backwards.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Representation
In arts and crafts, 'inversion' often refers to flipping an object's orientation.
The sculpture featured the inversion of a tree, with roots skyward.
Pro Tip 2/2Common in Puzzles
'Inversion' is a concept in puzzles that requires turning elements upside down to solve.
Solve this maze through inversion; start at the end and work backwards.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Representation
In arts and crafts, 'inversion' often refers to flipping an object's orientation.
The sculpture featured the inversion of a tree, with roots skyward.
Pro Tip 2/2Common in Puzzles
'Inversion' is a concept in puzzles that requires turning elements upside down to solve.
Solve this maze through inversion; start at the end and work backwards.
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How I accidentally...
and the night before I left for vacation, I slapped a quasi subversive name on it and emailed it back from that anonymous email address to everyone who voted. The Black List. A tribute to those who lost their careers during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s, and a conscious inversion of the notion that black somehow had a negative connotation.
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Hurricane Dust PIPE...
Saharan air layer can actually act to change the microphysics in the clouds and actually reduce the hurricane activity and even the thunderstorm activity it can also warm the Saharan air layer and create what we call a temperature inversion which makes it very hard for the thunderstorm tops to
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Tal Golesworthy: How I...
And then we realized that it was actually a mirror image of the real aorta. And it was a mirror image because in the real world, we always look down on plans, plans of houses, or streets, or maps. In the medical world, they look up at plans. So the horizontal images were all in inversion.
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The science of smog -...
are also especially vulnerable to smog since there's nowhere for it to dissipate. That's also partially due to a phenomenon known as temperature inversion, where instead of warm air continuously rising upward, a pollution-filled layer of air remains trapped near the Earth's surface
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Stanley McChrystal:...
a completely different skill set in terms of digital media than I do and many of the other senior leaders. And yet, we need to have that shared sense. It also produced something which I call an inversion of expertise,
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Robert Full: The secrets...
They even have some of the behaviors of the cockroaches. So they can use their smart, compliant body to transition up a wall in a very simple way. They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion behavior
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Defend our freedom to...
are going to be different than the proposed effects. The threat, in fact, is this inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create,
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Nicholas Negroponte...
And the reason she brought her mother is that this six-year-old child had been teaching her mother how to read and write. Her mother had not gone to primary school. And this is such an inversion,
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Group theory 101: How to...
In music that's called an inversion, and it's the equivalent of addition from earlier. Each inversion changes the sound of the chord, but it never stops being a C diminished seventh.
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Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy,...
we would think, oh my goodness, do I ever want to hug that. This is the strange inversion.
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How I accidentally...
and the night before I left for vacation, I slapped a quasi subversive name on it and emailed it back from that anonymous email address to everyone who voted. The Black List. A tribute to those who lost their careers during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s, and a conscious inversion of the notion that black somehow had a negative connotation.
Video examples
Hurricane Dust PIPE...
Saharan air layer can actually act to change the microphysics in the clouds and actually reduce the hurricane activity and even the thunderstorm activity it can also warm the Saharan air layer and create what we call a temperature inversion which makes it very hard for the thunderstorm tops to
Video examples
Tal Golesworthy: How I...
And then we realized that it was actually a mirror image of the real aorta. And it was a mirror image because in the real world, we always look down on plans, plans of houses, or streets, or maps. In the medical world, they look up at plans. So the horizontal images were all in inversion.
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The science of smog -...
are also especially vulnerable to smog since there's nowhere for it to dissipate. That's also partially due to a phenomenon known as temperature inversion, where instead of warm air continuously rising upward, a pollution-filled layer of air remains trapped near the Earth's surface
Video examples
Stanley McChrystal:...
a completely different skill set in terms of digital media than I do and many of the other senior leaders. And yet, we need to have that shared sense. It also produced something which I call an inversion of expertise,
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Robert Full: The secrets...
They even have some of the behaviors of the cockroaches. So they can use their smart, compliant body to transition up a wall in a very simple way. They even have some of the beginnings of the rapid inversion behavior
Video examples
Defend our freedom to...
are going to be different than the proposed effects. The threat, in fact, is this inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create,
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Nicholas Negroponte...
And the reason she brought her mother is that this six-year-old child had been teaching her mother how to read and write. Her mother had not gone to primary school. And this is such an inversion,
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Group theory 101: How to...
In music that's called an inversion, and it's the equivalent of addition from earlier. Each inversion changes the sound of the chord, but it never stops being a C diminished seventh.
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Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy,...
we would think, oh my goodness, do I ever want to hug that. This is the strange inversion.
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Susan Orlean
American Journalist
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
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Sara Pascoe
English Comedian
A show that I loved as a kid was 'Maid Marian And Her Merry Men'. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always wanted to be one of the village people messing about in the mud and being stinky.
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Jools Holland
English Musician
I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
German Scientist
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
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Patti Harrison
American Actress
A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians. It's really the inversion of my thoughts.
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Dick Durbin
American Politician
With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.
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Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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Joel Hodgson
American Entertainer
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
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Susan Orlean
American Journalist
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
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Sara Pascoe
English Comedian
A show that I loved as a kid was 'Maid Marian And Her Merry Men'. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always wanted to be one of the village people messing about in the mud and being stinky.
Quote examples
Jools Holland
English Musician
I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
German Scientist
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
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Patti Harrison
American Actress
A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians. It's really the inversion of my thoughts.
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Dick Durbin
American Politician
With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.
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Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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Joel Hodgson
American Entertainer
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
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