Perversion (Noun)
Meaning 1
An aberrant sexual practice.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
A curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords".
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The engineer carefully designed the perversion in the pipeline to change the direction of the water flow.
- In mathematics, a perversion is a specific type of curve that can invert the normal orientation of a space.
- The tendril's perversion gave it a unique shape that allowed it to reach for sunlight from an unusual angle.
- After the strong winds, the metal rod exhibited a perversion, bending in a strange direction that made it difficult to straighten.
- As she worked on her fiber art project, she observed a natural perversion in a strand of yarn that added texture to the piece.
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Meaning 3
The action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.