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Inversion

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounThe action of inverting.
2.NounThe act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
3.NounThe reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
4.NounThe position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
5.NounThe flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
6.NounA segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
7.NounA situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
8.NounA section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
9.NounDeviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations.
10.NounAn operation on a group, analogous to negation.
11.NounHomosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
12.NounThe catalytic action of invertase.
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