The layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer.

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c^†.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence^†; altiloquence etc. adj.^†; declamation, teratology^†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity.    inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.    flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.    big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality^†; Minerva press.    phrasemonger; euphuist^†, euphemist.    ... show more

Roget 237: contraposition^†, opposition; polarity; inversion etc. 218; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South.    antonym, opposite (contrariety) 14.    ... show more

Roget 145: reversion, return; revulsion.    turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm.    alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; inversion etc. 219; recoil etc. 277; retreat, regression, retrogression etc. 283; restoration etc. 660; relapse, recidivism etc. 661; atavism; vicinism^†; ... show more

Roget 140: change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break.    transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization [Chem]; transubstantiation; [Genetics], mutagenesis transanimation^†, transmigration, metempsychosis^†; avatar; alterative.    conversion etc. (gradual change) 144; revolution etc. (sudden or radical change) 146, inversion etc. (reversal) 218; displacement etc. 185; transference etc. 270.    changeableness etc. 149; tergiversation etc. (change of mind) 607.    ... show more

Roget 14: contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism etc. (opposition) 708; clashing, repugnance.    inversion etc. 218; the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme.    ... show more

Roget 61: derangement etc. v.; disorder etc. 59; evection^†, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization^†; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling etc. v.; inversion etc. 218; corrugation etc. (fold) 258; involvement.    interchange etc. 148.    ... show more

Polish: inwersja temperatury, inwersja, inwersja termiczna

Abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth).

A chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa.

Dutch: inversie

genetics A kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed.

The reversal of the normal order of words.

synonym: anastrophe.

Polish: anastrofa, epanastrofa

counterpoint A variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa.

A term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex.

synonym: sexual inversion.

Turning upside down; setting on end.

synonym: upending.

Dutch: interversie, inversie, omkering, reversie

The act of turning inside out.

synonyms: eversion, everting.

Roget 218: inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition etc. 237^†; contrariety etc. 14; reversal; turn of the tide.    overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset^†; culbute^†; revulsion; pirouette.    transposition, transposal^†, anastrophy^†, metastasis, hyperbaton^†, anastrophe^†, hysteron proteron [Gr.], hypallage^†, synchysis^†, tmesis^†, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome.    pronation and supination [Anat.].    ... show more

Polish: wywracanie