Interversion

Quick meaning: Interversion is a noun meaning The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.

Meaning

The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.

More Meanings

1. (music) A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.
2. (law) The process of changing a subsidiary title, such as that of a tenant, to one that is independently held.
3. (rare, obsolete) Embezzlement.

Example Sentences

There is a clear distinction between the type of interversion utilised in the 'Experimental period' (1949–51) and the compositions of the early 1960s.

Interversion of the order between wife, concubine and slave girl was always to be feared, and appropriate provisions appeared in the T'ang code and its successors.

Reti's explanation that interversion is sometimes responsible for thematic unity, while without academic precedent, is based upon an acute perception of musical structure.

Interversion is effected by a conveyance from the owner of land to his tenant, who thereafter will hold in virtue of the extrinsic cause contemplated by the rule, and also when the land comes to the tenant by descent.

Word Forms

• interversions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imbezlement, embezzlement, intortion, embezzling, dysversion, obvert.

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