inversion

• ⇰ व्युत्क्रम
• ⇰ उत्क्रमण
• ⇰ विपरीतता

• ⇰ उलटाव

• ⇰ The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.
• ⇰ A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.
• ⇰ A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.
• ⇰ A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third.
• ⇰ A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See <cref>Inverse figures</cref>, under Inverse
• ⇰ A change of the usual order of words or phrases; <as>as, of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable, instead of, impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices. </as>
• ⇰ A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.
• ⇰ Said of >intervals >, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.
• ⇰ The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.
• ⇰ The act or process by which cane sugar ( >sucrose >), under the action of heat and acids or enzymes (as >diastase >), is broken or split up into grape sugar ( >dextrose >), and fruit sugar ( >levulose >); also, less properly,
• ⇰ A reversal of the usual temperature gradient of the atmosphere, in which the temperature increases with increased altitude, rather than falling. Called also <ecol>temperature inversion></ecol>.
• ⇰ The conversion of direct current into alternating current; the inverse of <inv>rectification</inv>. See inverted rectifier>.
• ⇰ A portion of the genome in which the DNA has been turned around, and runs in a direction opposite to its normal direction, and consequently the genes are present in the reverse of their usual order.