inversion
颠倒,倒置,倒挂,颠倒法
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Definitions
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- : an act or instance of inverting.
- : the state of being inverted.
- : anything that is inverted.
- : Rhetoric. reversal of the usual or natural order of words; anastrophe.
- : Grammar. any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?” and “How beautiful is the rose!”
- : Anatomy, Pathology. the turning inward of a part, as the foot.
- : Chemistry. a hydrolysis of certain carbohydrates, as cane sugar, that results in a reversal of direction of the rotatory power of the carbohydrate solution, the plane of polarized light being bent from right to left or vice versa.a reaction in which a starting material of one optical configuration forms a product of the opposite configuration.
- : Music. the process or result of transposing the tones of an interval or chord so that the original bass becomes an upper voice. the transposition of the upper voice part below the lower, and vice versa.presentation of a melody in contrary motion to its original form.
- : Psychiatry. gay sexual orientation.assumption and display of the normative perspective, manner, or behavior of a sex different from one's own.
- : Genetics. a type of chromosomal aberration in which the position of a segment of the chromosome is changed in such a way that the linear order of the genes is reversed.Compare chromosomal aberration.
- : Phonetics. retroflexion.
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- : pertaining to or associated with inversion therapy or the apparatus used in it: inversion boots.
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Examples
With a strong rotation and a better-than-expected lineup, the Reds are following an inversion of the Padres’ trajectory, having won 18 of their last 26 dating back to late July.
That said, this kind of results inversion doesn’t happen very often.
Once your opponent has been classified as not just wrong but evil, a kind of moral inversion occurs where the worse you act, the more noble you are.
In a dizzying inversion, Francoist courts found that it was the liberal government, not the insurrectionists, who had betrayed Spain, and that supporting the government was illegal.
More to the point, the TV network owners need to prop up their streaming properties as the dynamic between linear TV and streaming’s roles approaches a point of inversion.
This is the kind of inversion of history that conservatives attack when perpetrated by the left.
And so Tea Party populism is actually a complete inversion of political and economic reality.
In other words, he was an inversion of the gay maxim “Butch on the streets, queen in the sheets,” a.k.a. “a top.”
This is an inversion of the basic principle of democracy: that elections are won by the candidate who gets the most votes.
This is essentially the argument made in Alan Ehrenhalt's The Great Inversion, which I highly recommend to you.
May not the construction be better taken as a simple, though to our ears cumbrous, of, So I heard them not?