renversement

English

Etymology

French

Noun

renversement (plural renversements)

1. A reversal or turning backwards.
   • 1969, Flying Magazine, volume 85, number 4, page 58:

     It's approved for loops, barrel and aileron rolls, horizontal (formerly Cuban) eights, Immelmans, vertical renversements and spins.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “renversement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

From renverser +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

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Noun

renversement m (plural renversements)

1. act of knocking over
2. reversal (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “renversement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.