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direction | inversion |

As nouns the difference between direction and inversion

is that direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards while inversion is inversion.

direction

English

(wikipedia direction)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.
  • * 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1 , pp.284-5
    • Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction .
  • Guidance, instruction.
  • The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
  • (archaic) An address.
  • * 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
    • Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .
  • The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • * 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
    • Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction .

    Related terms

    * direct * directions * director * directive * misdirection * redirection * under the direction of

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    Anagrams

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    inversion

    English

    (wikipedia inversion) (clean up music definitions)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the action of inverting
  • being upside down, in an inverted state
  • being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state
  • (music)
  • # The move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
  • # The reversal of an interval.
  • # The reversal of the pitch contour.
  • # The reversal of a pitch class succession, such as a contrapuntal line or melody.
  • # The subtraction of pitch classes in a set from twelve, which maps intervals onto their complements with respect to 0, and preserves interval classes, symbolized IX (X being the transposition that is inverted.).
  • (genetics) a segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome
  • (weather) An increase of air temperature with increase in altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air). When an inversion exists, there are no convection currents and wind speeds are below 5 knots. The atmosphere is stable and normally is considered the most favorable state for ground release of chemical agents.
  • (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
    • (with an auxiliary verb) Inversion takes place in the sentence 'Is she here?' — 'is', the predicate, is before 'she', the subject.
    (for the purpose of emphasis) Inversion takes place in the sentence 'Never have I done that.' — 'have', the predicate, is before 'I', the subject, due to 'never' being the first word of the sentence.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 2007/08 , author = abergs , title = INFL-to-COMP movement , site = English Language and Linguistics Online , url = http://www.ello.uni-osnabrueck.de/field.php/Syntax/INFL-to-COMPMovement , accessdate = 2014-05-22 }}
    Question formation involves the phenomenon commonly known as subject-auxiliary inversion , a change in word order in which the auxiliary moves in front of the subject.
    (a) Here we shall describe this phenomenon in terms of movement of the element under INFL into COMP position.
    (b) According to this analysis, what looks like an exchanging of positions between the subject and auxiliary (or INFL element, in GB terms) is actually the movement of the INFL element past the subject position into COMP.
    (c) INFL-to-COMP movement seems to be triggered by the presence of the [+WH] feature in COMP.
  • (psychology, obsolete) an outdated term for homosexuality, particularly popular in early psychoanalysis

    • Derived terms

    * paracentric inversion * pericentric inversion * temperature inversion

    See also

    * twelve tone technique * serialism

    References

    * (music) DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6. * (genetics) Lars Feuk, Andrew R. Carson and Stephen W. Scherer (February 2006). " Structural variation in the human genome," Nature, 7:85. * (genetics) Freeman et al., " Copy number variation: New insights into genome diversity" Genome Res 2006; 16: 949-61. — "DNA copy number variation has long been associated with specific chromosomal rearrangements and genomic disorders, but its ubiquity in mammalian genomes was not fully realized until recently. Although our understanding of the extent of this variation is still developing, it seems likely that, at least in humans, copy number variants (CNVs) account for a substantial amount of genetic variation." ----