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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.
Wilhelm Ostwald

Meaning of "inversion" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INVERSION

inversion  [ɪnˈvɜːʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INVERSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inversion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INVERSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inversion in the English dictionary

The first definition of inversion in the dictionary is the act of inverting or state of being inverted. Other definition of inversion is something inverted, esp a reversal of order, mutual functions, etc. Inversion is also Also called: anastrophe the reversal of a normal order of words.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INVERSION


animadversion
ˌænɪmædˈvɜːʃən
anteversion
ˌæntɪˈvɜːʃən
antisubversion
æntɪsəbˈvɜːʃən
aversion
əˈvɜːʃən
bioconversion
ˌbaɪəʊkənˈvɜːʃən
conversion
kənˈvɜːʃən
diversion
daɪˈvɜːʃən
extraversion
ˌɛkstrəˈvɜːʃən
extroversion
ˌɛkstrəˈvɜːʃən
interconversion
ˌɪntəkənˈvɜːʃən
introversion
ˌɪntrəˈvɜːʃən
lateroversion
ˌlætərəʊˈvɜːʃən
perversion
pəˈvɜːʃən
reconversion
ˌriːkənˈvɜːʃən
retroversion
ˌrɛtrəʊˈvɜːʃən
reversion
rɪˈvɜːʃən
seroconversion
ˌsɪərəʊkənˈvɜːʃən
subversion
səbˈvɜːʃən
transversion
trænzˈvɜːʃən
version
ˈvɜːʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INVERSION

inverity
Inverness
Inverness-shire
inverse
inverse function
inverse graffiti
inverse square law
inversely
inversive
invert
invert sugar
invertase
invertebral
invertebrate
inverted chord
inverted comma
inverted commas
inverted mordent
inverted nipples

WORDS THAT END LIKE INVERSION

American Standard Version
aspersion
barn conversion
commission
cover version
dispersion
emersion
energy conversion
eversion
excursion
immersion
incursion
King James Version
recursion
Revised Standard Version
Revised Version
submersion
the Authorized Version
the Dispersion
the King James Version
torsion

Synonyms and antonyms of inversion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INVERSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inversion» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inversion

Translation of «inversion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INVERSION

Find out the translation of inversion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inversion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inversion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反转
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inversión
570 millions of speakers

English

inversion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उलटा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انقلاب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

инверсия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inversão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিপর্যয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inversion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyongsangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Inversion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

反転
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inversi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đảo ngược
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தலைகீழ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उलटापालट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ters çevirme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inversione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inwersja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інверсія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inversiune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιστροφή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

inversie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inversion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inversjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inversion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INVERSION»

The term «inversion» is very widely used and occupies the 18.523 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INVERSION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inversion

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9 QUOTES WITH «INVERSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inversion.
1
Irving Babbitt
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
2
Benedict Cumberbatch
'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.
3
Carl Hiaasen
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
4
Joel Hodgson
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
5
Quincy Jones
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
6
Wilhelm Ostwald
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.
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Wilhelm Ostwald
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.
8
Ayn Rand
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.
9
Rebecca Solnit
To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INVERSION»

Discover the use of inversion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inversion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
"Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, takes us to cities across the country to reveal how the roles of America's cities and suburbs are changing places--young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the ...
Alan Ehrenhalt, 2013
2
Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion
This book develops and describes state of the art methodologies covering all aspects of full waveform tomography.
Andreas Fichtner, 2010
3
Introduction to the Mathematics of Inversion in Remote ...
After an introductory chapter, the text progresses to simple problems involving inversion, the theory of large linear systems, physical and geometric aspects of vectors and matrices, and algebraic and geometric aspects of functions and ...
S. Twomey, 2014
4
Inversion in Modern English: Form and Function
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences.
Heidrun Dorgeloh, 1997
5
Introduction to Seismic Inversion Methods
An overview of the current techniques used in the inversion of seismic data is provided.
Brian H. Russell, 1988
6
Lasers Without Inversion and Electromagnetically Induced ...
In recent years, lasing without inversion (LWI) and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) have opened up new avenues for laser physics.
Sher Alam, 1999
7
English Inversion: A Ground-before-figure Construction
"The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics.
Rong Chen, 2003
8
The Discourse Function of Inversion in English
A study of discourse-functional constraints on the use of a marked syntactic construction.
Betty J. Birner, 1996
9
Mobius Inversion in Physics
This book attempts to bridge the gap between the principles of pure mathematics and the applications in physical science.
Chen Nanxian, 2010
10
Voice and Inversion
This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of _inverse_.
Talmy Givón, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INVERSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inversion is used in the context of the following news items.
1
CF Industries Stock Up 10%: Inversions Are Back, Baby! -- The …
A merger but no inversion -- also likely to deflate CF's share price. Basically, buying shares on this news -- really just rumor at this point -- is ... «Motley Fool, Jul 15»
2
Congress votes on highways, water, education from July 13-17 : News
A yes vote backed an infrastructure plan funded mainly by a crackdown on firms that use what is known as “tax inversion” to partially relocate ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
3
Arrowtown equals worst air pollution | Otago Daily Times Online …
''Cold air will flow down the hill next to town through the evening and this will strengthen the inversion forming. This makes it especially difficult ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»
4
Shakina Nayfack tells of the transition of her life - NY Daily News
... unique way of doing the surgery. The traditionally accepted method of the surgery is called penile inversion, which explains itself in the title. «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
5
Human Sex Chromosomes Are Sloppy DNA Swappers - Smithsonian
The result of this mutation, called an inversion, is that the X and Y ... Because the process of inversion cuts genes in half, scientists can see the ... «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
6
Ant-Man, Marvel superhero, gets into an Ocean's 11 caper | The …
The sequences in which Scott is insect-sized and assisted by an army of ants, terrestrial and airborne, offer a brilliant inversion of perspective: ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
7
Abengoa's liquidity questioned after treasury shares sale
One bond investor noted that on May 8 Abengoa borrowed 95m B shares from its majority shareholder Inversion Corporativa, equivalent to ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
Behind the White Walls: Isaac Brest's 'Hunger Is the Best Sauce …
As this molecular shudder in the white walls becomes perceptible, there is a further inversion of context. The walls assimilate; the art discharges ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Elizabeth Warren Challenges Hillary Clinton to End the Revolving …
... ran a seminar for corporate clients on how to dodge taxes, in particular through shifting their headquarters overseas in a corporate “inversion. «The New Republic, Jul 15»
10
Bipartisan international tax reform should not cross red lines | TheHill
Even with a hybrid territorial system, the inversion problem of U.S. incorporated companies becoming foreign will remain unless dealt with as ... «The Hill, Jul 15»

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