单词 | inversion |
释义 | inversion/ɪnˈvəːʃ(ə)n /noun 1 [mass noun] The action of inverting something or the state of being inverted: the inversion of the normal domestic arrangement [count noun]: an inversion of traditional customer-supplier relationships...
Synonyms reversal, transposition, turning about, turning upside down; reverse, contrary, antithesis, converse, transposal rare contrareity, antipode 1.1Reversal of the normal order of words, typically for rhetorical effect but also found in the regular formation of questions in English.One of its little peculiarities is that along with front placement of the adverbial goes inversion of main verb and subject....
1.2 Music The process of inverting an interval, chord, or phrase.I've found this sequencing only works sometimes, and it teaches students to confuse a chord's inversion with its function....
1.3 [count noun] Music An inverted interval, chord, or phrase.Unit 3 presents major scales, triads and inversions, and chord progressions on white-key tonics....
1.4 Physics (also population inversion) A transposition in the relative numbers of atoms, molecules, etc. occupying particular energy levels.This requires a population inversion of atoms that are in excited states, which is maintained by ‘pumping ‘the cavity externally.’...
1.5 Chemistry A reaction causing a change from one optically active configuration to the opposite configuration, especially the hydrolysis of dextrose to give a laevorotatory solution of fructose and glucose.If the bond between these two sugars is broken, free glucose and fructose result, a reaction termed inversion....
2 (also temperature or thermal inversion) A reversal of the normal decrease of air temperature with altitude, or of water temperature with depth.Precise data on vertical rainfall distribution, temperature lapse rate, and the altitude of the temperature inversion on the windward slope exist for this oceanic wet tropical mountain....
2.1 (also inversion layer) A layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases with height.In the inversion layer, temperature increases with height, often at a rate of more than 10°C per km....
3 [mass noun] Mathematics The process of finding a quantity, function, etc. from a given one such that the product of the two under a particular operation is the identity. 3.1The interchanging of numerator and denominator of a fraction, or antecedent and consequent of a ratio.It could be argued that participants did not use Inversion as frequently on the Multiplication / Division inversion problems because they could solve the problems quickly and easily using retrieval....
3.2The process of finding the expression which gives a given expression under a given transformation. 3.3 [count noun] Geometry A transformation in which each point of a given figure is replaced by another point on the same straight line from a fixed point, especially in such a way that the product of the distances of the two points from the centre of inversion is constant.When examining symmetry in the three-dimensional world, there are four types of symmetry operations to consider: rotation, reflection, roto-reflection and inversion. 4 (also sexual inversion) Psychology, dated Homosexuality. Derivativesinversive
OriginMid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric, denoting the turning of an argument against the person who put it forward): from Latin inversio(n-), from the verb invertere (see invert1). |
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