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inversion

noun as in transposition

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Everett’s inversion of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told by the eponymous James, allows its narrator to reclaim both his proper name and history from the character Twain simply called “Jim.”

But in an inversion of what normally happens in this type of environment, the crowd seemed eager for Tyler to return to “Chromakopia.”

This is a Yoda inversion you see, and in case you didn't get the memo, Kreese is sent on a mission that ends in a dark cave.

From Salon

Both Korbel and Sanders, Group Leader at the Max Delbrück Center study how genetic structural variation -- deletions, duplications, inversions, and translocations of large sections of the human genome -- contributes to the development of disease.

Studying the insects’ genomes, the researchers also found that color differences among morphs are caused by major structural rearrangements of DNA such as inversions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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