interversions

interversions is the plural of interversion.

Meaning of interversion

interversion (countable and uncountable, plural interversions)

The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
- Interversion of the order between wife, concubine and slave girl was always to be feared, and appropriate provisions appeared in the T'ang code and its successors.1956, Marius Hendrikus van der Valk, Conservatism in Modern Chinese Family Law, page 41
A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.
- Reti's explanation that interversion is sometimes responsible for thematic unity, while without academic precedent, is based upon an acute perception of musical structure.1963, Alan Walker, A Study in Musical Analysis, page 74
The process of changing a subsidiary title, such as that of a tenant, to one that is independently held.
- Interversion is effected by a conveyance from the owner of land to his tenant, who thereafter will hold in virtue of the extrinsic cause contemplated by the rule, and also when the land comes to the tenant by descent.1862, The American Law Register - Volume 10, page 68

interversion (countable and uncountable, plural interversions)

What is interversions the plural of?: Interversions is the plural of interversion.

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