1. a technique used in writing or in speeches, in which words, ideas, etc. are repeated in the opposite orderTopics
   Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘crosswise arrangement’): modern Latin, from Greek khiasmos, from khiazein ‘mark with the letter chi’, from khi ‘chi’, the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet.

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