Inverse 193958 219459516 2008-06-15T09:46:52Z SieBot 4005189 robot Adding: [[he:אינברסיה]] {{Wiktionarypar|inverse}} '''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 inversion]]s, which turn riders upside-down *[[Inversion therapy]], the practise of hanging upside down (heart higher than head) for supposed health benefits. ==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 image charges|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') * [[Priority inversion]], in which a low-priority task holds a shared resource that a high-priority task needs ==See also== * [[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 {{disambig}} [[cs:Inverze]] [[da:Invers]] [[de:Inversion]] [[fr:Inversion]] [[id:Invers]] [[it:Inversione]] [[he:אינברסיה]] [[nl:Inversie]] [[pl:Inwersja]] [[pt:Inversão]] [[simple:Inverse]] [[fi:Inversio]] [[sv:Reciprok]] [[uk:Обернення]]