inversion
/ɪnˈvɜrʒən/
noun
- The act of turning something upside down or reversing its position, order, or direction.
- The inversion of the letters in the word made it hard to read.
- In dance, an inversion is a move where the dancer's feet go above their head.
- The inversion of the glass caused the water to spill.
- A change in the usual order of words in a sentence, often for emphasis or to form a question.
- In English, inversion is common in questions like 'Are you coming?'
- Teachers often explain inversion when teaching students how to form negative adverbial phrases.
- The poet used inversion to create a dramatic effect in the line 'Never have I seen such beauty.'
- A weather condition in which a layer of warm air traps cooler air near the ground, preventing pollution from rising.
- During an inversion, the air near the ground can become very polluted.
- Meteorologists predicted an inversion that would keep the fog in the valley all day.
- The city issued a smog alert because of a strong temperature inversion.
- In music, a rearrangement of the notes of a chord so that a different note is the lowest.
- The guitarist played a chord inversion to give the song a smoother sound.
- The composer used a first inversion to create a feeling of tension.
- Learning chord inversions helps pianists move their hands less between chords.