Inversion Synonyms

ĭn-vûrzhən
The act of changing or being changed from one position, direction, or course to the opposite
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reversal
  2. transposition
  3. turnabout
  4. turnaround
The act of turning inside out
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. transposition
  2. reversal
  3. eversion
  4. anastrophe
  5. contradiction
  6. everting
A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sexual-inversion
Turning upside down; setting on end
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. upending

Words Related to Inversion

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Inversion Sentence Examples

  • It is a curious inversion of terms that in recent years has led to the name Sacramentarians being applied to those who hold a high or extreme view of the efficacy of the sacraments.

  • In some instances the result has been an additional and unnecessary expenditure of high-pressure steam, and in all the weld-known fact - of the highest importance in this connexion - appears to have been disregarded, that the shorter the time the juice is exposed to heat the less inversion will take place in it, and therefore the less will be the loss of sugar.

  • Charles's balance areometer is similar to Nicholson's hydrometer, except that the lower basin admits of inversion, thus enabling the instrument to be employed for solids lighter than water, the inverted basin serving the same purpose as the pointed screw in Atkins's modification of the instrument.

  • The most marked case of such inversion in comparative anatomy is that of Carl Gegenbaur (5826-5903), who in arranging the fins of fishes in support of his theory that the fin of the Australian.

  • As the first integument grows round it, the amount of inversion increases, and the funicle becomes adherent to the side of the nucellus.

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