eng: inversion

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Meaning
means	(noun) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer inversion
means	(noun) abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth) inversion
means	(noun) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa inversion
means	(noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed inversion
means	(noun) the reversal of the normal order of words inversion, anastrophe
means	(noun) (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa inversion
means	(noun) a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex inversion, sexual inversion
means	(noun) turning upside down; setting on end upending, inversion
means	(noun) the act of turning inside out eversion, everting, inversion
means	e/Inversion (computer science)
means	e/Inversion (linguistics)
means	e/Inversion (meteorology)
means	e/Inversion (music)