interversion

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

Noun

The swapping of positions within a sequence; transposition or permutation.
- 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. - 1956, Marius Hendrikus van der Valk, Conservatism in...
- Thanks to the conservatism of local toponymy, the first five rivers (Khvāstrā, Hvaspā, Fradathā, Khvarenahvaitī, Ushtavaitī) are safely identified as northeastern and northern tributaries of the lake, enumerated in...
- We find ourselves once more in the presence of the phenomenon shath, the interversion of personalities occurring in the course of mystical union. God concedes His part to the ecstatic soul which becomes His mouthpiece;...
A composition technique in which a sequence of elements composed of notes or rhythms is repeated in permuted orders.
- Reti's explanation that interversion is sometimes responsible for thematic unity, while without academic precedent, is based upon an acute perception of musical structure. - 1963, Alan Walker, A Study in Musical...
- Repeated permutation according to this reading order, which Messiaen explores in full in "Île de Feu," results in ten different interversions (as the last column in the table shows, the tenth interversion restores the...
- But the two are not just related. They are the same! Inversion, retrogradation, retrograe, inversion, augmentation, diminution, partition, interversion, exclusion, inclusion, and textural change -- these composing...
The process of changing a subsidiary title, such as that of a tenant, to one that is independently held.
- 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. -...
- Acts of interversion cannot take place against minors or other persons against whom prescription is not allowed to run. - 1865, Code civil du Bas Canada, page 419:
- In modern Dutch law the prohibition of interversion is still used to prevent a prescription period from running against an unsuspecting owner. - 2000, Lars Peter Wunibald van Vliet, Transfer of Movables in German,...