inversion
noun/ɪnˈvɜːʃn/
/ɪnˈvɜːrʒn/
[uncountable, countable] (specialist)- the act of changing the position or order of something to its opposite, or of turning something into a position in which the top of it is where the bottom of it normally is
- the inversion of normal word order
- an inversion of the truth
Word Originmid 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 literally ‘turn inside out’, from in- ‘into’ + vertere ‘to turn’.Definitions on the go
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