English Dictionary

inversion

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪnˈvɚ.ʒən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

The action of inverting. / Being in an inverted state; being upside down or in a reverse sequence. / (music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.

日本語の意味

物事を逆さまにする行為、またはその状態。 / 物の順序や状態が反対になっている状態。 / （音楽）音程や和音の転回、つまり音の位置を変更して別の位置に移すこと。

The inversion of the painting revealed a hidden signature on the canvas.

その絵を反転させることで、キャンバスに隠された署名が現れた。

意味（1）

The action of inverting.

意味（2）

Being in an inverted state; being upside down or in a reverse sequence.

意味（3）

(music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.

意味（4）

(music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.

意味（5）

(music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.

意味（6）

(genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.

意味（7）

(meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).

意味（8）

(grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.

Inversion takes place in the sentence 'Is she here?' — 'is', the predicate, is before 'she', the subject. (with an auxiliary verb)

意味（9）

(algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.

意味（10）

(psychology, obsolete) Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.

We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any cure of inversion.

inversions （ plural ）