1 Term for syntactic process whereby two types of constituents are permuted. Inversion in English is one means of forming a question, e.g. That is true vs Is that true? It can also be used in topicalization: That film I haven’t seen yet. 2...

. In traditional formal logic, replacement of a proposition by another (its inverse), which follows logically from it (assuming, as the traditional logic did, that all the relevant classes have members) and has as subject the negation of the original...

// n. 1. See subject-auxiliary inversion. 2. A general term for any phenomenon in which the canonical ordering of two elements is reversed. See Fowler (1965) for a catalogue of...

Inverse or Inversion may refer to: Sexual inversion (sexology), an older term for homosexuality Inverse (program), a program for solving Inverse and Optimization problems Inversion (music) Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's...