inversion

Example Sentences

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The Nursey album also points to remarkable inversions of gender dynamics.

From BBC

The study also documented frequent inversions, where hatchlings flipped onto their backs while trying to scale the seaweed.

From Science Daily

This technique is based on a simple idea: over evolutionary time, the order of genes on a chromosome gets shuffled via mutations—for instance, via inversions that flip the order of genes within a chromosome.

From Scientific American

The new check marks have instead become an inversion of the old.

From New York Times

This inversion of values is destroying the nation's educational system.

From Salon