inversion

About 4.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The action of inverting.
2. noun The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
3. noun The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
4. noun The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
5. noun The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
6. noun A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
7. noun A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
8. noun A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.

Similar words

eversion upending anastrophe everting inverter reverse reversal inverse paracentric overthrow

Often followed by

of is in and layer recovery or to at

Word family

inversions