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Inverse or inversion may refer to:
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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 inversion s, which turn riders upside-down*
Inversion therapy , the practise of hanging upside down (heart higher than head) for supposed health benefits.cience and mathematics
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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
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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')
*Priority inversion , in which a low-priority task holds a shared resource that a high-priority task needsee also
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Antonym , word pairs that are opposite in meaning
*Introversion and extroversion
*Inverse-square law , something is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
*Inverted river delta , the narrow end on the seafront, the wide end located further inland
*Obverse and reverse , in coins
*Opposite
*Reverse
*Reverse perspective , in art, the further the object, the larger it is drawn
*Voice inversion , a method of scrambling communications
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