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- See also: Inversions
Inverse or inversion may refer to:
- Inverse (program), a program for solving inverse and optimization problems
- Inversion (music)
- Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's elements
- Inversion (linguistics)
- Inversion (law), reincorporation by a firm in a different country e.g. to save taxes
- Inversion in postcolonial theory, a discursive strategy/gesture in cultural and subaltern studies
- Invert, a bmx trick
- Inverted pyramid, a way to arrange information in a news story
- Inverted sugar syrup
- Anastrophe, a literary device
- Mirror image
- Roller coaster inversions, which turn riders upside-down
- Inversion therapy, the practise of hanging upside down (heart higher than head) for supposed health benefits.
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Science and mathematics
- Inversion (kinesiology), movement of the sole towards the median plane
- Inverse (mathematics)
- Inversive geometry, transformation geometry based on inversion in a circle
- Method of inversion, the image of a harmonic function in a sphere (or plane).
- Inverse problem, in science and mathematics, fitting a model to known data
- Inversion (geology), the relative uplift of a previously basinal area resulting from local shortening, in structural geology
- Inversion (meteorology), air temperature increasing with height
- Inversion (nuclear), the "island of inversion", a group of elements with abnormal nuclear shell structure
- Chromosomal inversion, where a segment of a chromosome is reversed end to end
- Nitrogen inversion, a chemical process in which a trigonal nitrogen-containing structure turns inside-out
- Population inversion, in statistical mechanics, when a system exists in state with more members in an excited state than in lower energy states
- Sexual inversion, in biology, the switching from one sex to the opposite among some animal species.
- Sexual inversion (sexology), a term for reversal of gender roles, usually implying homosexuality, found primarily in older scientific literature
- Inversion (linguistics), a term referring to a number of different distinct grammatical constructions found in the languages of the world.
Technology
- Inverse multiplexer (or 'demultiplexer'), which breaks a single data stream into several streams with lower data rates
- Inverter (electrical), which converts direct current to alternating current
- Inverter (logic gate) (or 'NOT gate')
- Inverted flight, flying upside down
- Priority inversion, in which a low-priority task holds a shared resource that a high-priority task needs
- Invert the base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch. 1
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References
- ^ invert (in'‑vert) The floor or bottom of the internal cross section of a closed conduit, such as an aqueduct, tunnel, or drain - The term originally referred to the inverted arch used to form the bottom of a masonry‑lined sewer or tunnel (Jackson, 1997) Wilson, W.E., Moore, J.E., (2003) Glossary of Hydrology, Berlin: Springer
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