"Inversion" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 fǎn zhuǎn reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
 cuò wèi to misplace / displacement (e.g. of broken bones) / out of alignment / faulty contact / erroneous judgment / inversion (medical, e.g. breech delivery)
 dào zhuāng inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect) / anastrophe
 dào wèi inversion
 diān inversion / mistake
 fǎn yǎn inversion (geometry)
 dào zhuāng jù inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect) / anastrophe
  inversion / inverse theory techniques
 zhuǎn wèi transposition / displacement / inversion / translocation / to displace / to transpose
 zhuǎn huí to turn back / to put back / reversal / melodic inversion (in music)
鹿 zhǐ lù zuò mǎ to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom) / deliberate inversion of the truth
 dào xiàng phase reversal / phase inversion
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