0 a situation in which something is changed so that it is the opposite of what it was before, or in which something is turned upside down:
1 a situation in which the temperature of the air high above the ground is warmer than the air near the ground
In each case, inversion of configuration was demonstrated using thio-substituted non-bridging phosphate oxygens.
However, selective effects associated with inversions were soon discovered.
On the other hand, to measure equality based on chord quality alone, we need to account for the notion of an inversion.
The performers' feet were at right angles to spectators' feet in an inversion of the axis of physical space.
Interpreting rankings as ratings involves an inversion of preference ranks: the first preference candidate is assigned the highest preference score, and so on.
A reviewer notes that his informants accept the inversion of the verb and subject in at least some cases.
For the cosmopolitan inversions, a significant correlation with altitude or latitude was never found, even after multiple regression analyses.
All the populations show the presence of the three cosmopolitan inversions, frequencies of which vary among the populations analysed.