Look up: inversion

1. inversion
   position the foot as for testing eversion - this time ask the patient to resist the examiner as he tries to pull it back to the neutral position
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2. Inversion
   A layer of warm air that prevents the rise of cooling air and traps pollutants beneath it; can cause an air pollution episode.
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3. inversion
   An anomaly in the normal positive lapse rate; usually refers to a thermal inversion, in which temperature increases rather than decreases with height.
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4. Inversion
   In meteorology, describes the state of the lower atmosphere when the temperature is lowest near the ground. Usually occur at night. The lower atmosphere is non-turbulent in inversion in contrast to its turbulent state under the opposite (lapse) condition when the ground is warmed by solar radiation.
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5. Inversion
   A reversal of the normal lapse rate of decreasing temperature with increasing altitude.
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6. Inversion
   Where the expected stressed or unstressed syllable is switched for its opposite. Shakespeare frequently employed a trochaic inversion - i.e. by placing a trochee at the start of an iambic line.
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7. inversion
   [n] - 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) 2. [n] - the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer 3. [n] - (genetics) a kind of mutation in whic...
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8. Inversion
   The order of notes in A chord from The bass note
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9. Inversion
   Referring to something being upside down.
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10. Inversion
    An increase of temperature with height through a given layer of air in place of the decrease which normally occurs.
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11. inversion
    an inversion of two elements occurs when they are in the inverse order as compared with some standard given order Category: Mathematics • a process,during deployment,which turns the canopy inside out Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure • a change in the conductivity ...
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12. Inversion
    In·ver'sion noun [ Latin inversio : confer French inversion . See Invert .] 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. A change by inverted order; a reversed position o...
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13. inversion
    1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. ... 2. <mathematics> 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. ... 3. <genetics> An aberration in which a chromoso...
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14. inversion
    upending noun turning upside down; setting on end
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15. inversion
    noun (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
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16. inversion
    everting noun the act of turning inside out
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17. inversion
    noun a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
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18. inversion
    (in-vur´zhәn) a turning inward, inside out, or other reversal of the normal relation of a part. a chromosomal aberration due to the inverted reunion of an internal segment after breakage of a chromosome at two points, resulting in a change in sequence of genes or nucleotides.
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19. Inversion
    • (n.) A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, `of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable,` instead of, `impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices.` • (n.) The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. • (n.) Said ...
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20. inversion
    (from the article `evolution`) ...or sets of chromosomes. (The condition in which an organism acquires one or more additional sets of chromosomes is called polyploidy.) Changes in ... An inversion occurs when a chromosome breaks in two places and the region between the break rotates 180° before rejoining with the two end fragments. ...
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21. inversion
    in chemistry, the spatial rearrangement of atoms or groups of atoms in a dissymmetric molecule, giving rise to a product with a molecular ... [2 related articles]
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22. inversion
    in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an ...
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23. inversion
    in music, rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music. The inversion of ... [3 related articles]
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24. Inversion
    See temperature inversion.
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25. INVERSION
    A departure from the usual increase or decrease of an atmospheric property with altitude. It usually refers to an increase in temperature with increasing altitude, which is a departure from the usual decrease of temperature with height.
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