inversions

Noun

inversion (countable and uncountable, plural inversions)

1. The action of inverting.
2. The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
3. The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
4. The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
5. The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
6. A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.

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