inversion
/ɪnˈvɜːʃən/noun
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- mass noun the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted倒转, 倒置, 倒向, 颠倒：
the inversion of the normal domestic arrangement
对正常家庭关系的颠倒
count noun an inversion of traditional customer-supplier relationships.买卖双方传统关系的颠倒。
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- reversal of the normal order of words, typically for rhetorical effect but also found in the regular formation of questions in English（指词序）倒装。
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- Music the process of inverting an interval, chord, or phrase【乐】转位。
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- count noun Music an inverted interval, chord, or phrase【乐】转位音程; 转位和弦; 转位乐句。
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- Physics （亦作population inversion）a transposition in the relative numbers of atoms, molecules, etc. occupying particular energy levels【物理】粒子数布居反转。
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- 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【化】倒反, 反转
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- （亦作 temperature or thermal inversion）a reversal of the normal decrease of air temperature with altitude, or of water temperature with depth逆温, 逆增。
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- （亦作 inversion layer）a layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases with height逆温层。
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- 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【数】求逆, 求反。
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- the interchanging of numerator and denominator of a fraction, or antecedent and consequent of a ratio反演（指分子与分母或比例项之间）。
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- the process of finding the expression which gives a given expression under a given transformation（表达）转换。
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- 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【几何】几何转位。
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- （亦作 sexual inversion）Psychology, dated the adoption of behaviour typical of the opposite sex; homosexuality【心理】〈旧〉 性倒错; 同性恋。
派生词
inversive
adjective词源
mid 16th cent. （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）.