Meanings (ES + gloss)
alteración • invertimiento • transposición
The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
anástrofe • hipérbato • hipérbaton • inversión
Deviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations.
Question formation involves the phenomenon commonly known as subject-auxiliary inversion, a change in word order in which the auxiliary moves in front of the subject.
Phrases
Walden inversioncircle inversioncoinversiondependency inversion principlefirst inversioninversion illusioninversion of controlinversion pairinversion tableinversion therapyinversionalinversionisminversionistinversionlessisland of inversionmicroinversionnitrogen inversionnoninversionparacentric inversionpenile inversionpericentric inversionpopulation inversionpseudoinversionreinversionretrograde inversionrotoinversionsecond inversionsexual inversionstereoinversiontemperature inversionthird inversionuninversion
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