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Definition of inversion noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

inversion

noun
 
/ɪnˈvɜːʃn/
 
/ɪnˈvɜːrʒn/
 [uncountable, countable] (specialist)
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  1. 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
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    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’.
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