the act of changing the position or order of something to its opposite, or of turning something into a position in which the top of it is where the bottom of it normally is倒置；颠倒；倒转- the inversion of normal word order正常词序的倒装
- an inversion of the truth颠倒是非
Topics Languagec1Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a term in rhetoric, denoting the turning of an argument against the person who put it forward): from Latin inversio(n-), from the verb invertere literally ‘turn inside out’, from in- ‘into’ + vertere ‘to turn’.