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ALL meanings of atmospheric-inversion

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  • noun atmospheric-inversion an act or instance of inverting. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion the state of being inverted. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion anything that is inverted. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Rhetoric. reversal of the usual or natural order of words; anastrophe. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Grammar. any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?” and “How beautiful is the rose!”. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Anatomy, Pathology. the turning inward of a part, as the foot. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Chemistry. a hydrolysis of certain carbohydrates, as cane sugar, that results in a reversal of direction of the rotatory power of the carbohydrate solution, the plane of polarized light being bent from right to left or vice versa. a reaction in which a starting material of one optical configuration forms a product of the opposite configuration. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Music. the process or result of transposing the tones of an interval or chord so that the original bass becomes an upper voice. (in counterpoint) the transposition of the upper voice part below the lower, and vice versa. presentation of a melody in contrary motion to its original form. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Psychiatry. assumption of the sexual role of the opposite sex; homosexuality. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Genetics. a type of chromosomal aberration in which the position of a segment of the chromosome is changed in such a way that the linear order of the genes is reversed. Compare chromosomal aberration. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Phonetics. retroflexion (def 3). 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Also called atmospheric inversion, temperature inversion. Meteorology. a reversal in the normal temperature lapse rate, the temperature rising with increased elevation instead of falling. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Electricity. a converting of direct current into alternating current. 1
  • noun atmospheric-inversion Mathematics. the operation of forming the inverse of a point, curve, function, etc. 1
  • adjective atmospheric-inversion pertaining to or associated with inversion therapy or the apparatus used in it: inversion boots. 1
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