eversion

An act of turning inside out.

Noun

  1. An act of turning inside out.
    • Somewhere along the line, he managed to complete a kind of psychic eversion, a kind of total transformation of internal affairs. - 1986, Harald William Fawkner, The ecstatic world of John Cowper Powys, page 76:
    • When it comes to vacuum bubble eversion, a vacuum bubble also passes through asymmetrical stages in the eversion process - 1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere, page 125:
  2. The state of being turned inside out.
    • If there is no eversion of the lips, there may be no symptoms present. - 1894, Charles Bingham Penrose with Albert Ernest Truby and William Alexander Newman Dorland, Syllabus of the Lectures on Gynecology, page 44:
  3. The condition of being turned outward.
    • The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in. - 1989 September 14, “HEALTH; Personal Health”, in New York Times:

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