movement vs inversion

inversion vs movement

movement and inversion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
inversion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inversion is a hyponym of movement; that is, inversion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:

movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
inversion: the act of turning inside out

Other hyponyms of movement include abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, flit, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, eversion, everting, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, rotation, closing, shutting, sitting, posing, sitting, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.

movement (noun)	inversion (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	turning upside down; setting on end
the act of changing the location of something	the act of turning inside out
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end	a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
the act of changing location from one place to another	the reversal of the normal order of words
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)	(counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)	(genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata	the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something	a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals	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)
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation

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