Inversion
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Inversion may refer to:
- Inversion (music), a term with various meanings in music theory and musical set theory
- Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's elements
- 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
- Roller coaster inversion, which turns riders upside-down
- Inversion therapy, the practise of hanging upside down (heart higher than head) for supposed health benefits
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- Chromosomal inversion, where a segment of a chromosome is reversed end-to-end
- Inversion (kinesiology), movement of the sole towards the median plane
- Inversion (geology), the relative uplift of a previously basinal area resulting from local shortening, in structural geology
- Seismic inversion, transforming seismic reflection data into a quantitative rock-property description of a geological formation.
- Inversion (meteorology), air temperature increasing with height
- Inversion (evolutionary biology), a hypothesis about the evolution of the dorsoventral axis in animals
- Inversion (linguistics), a term referring to a number of different distinct grammatical constructions found in the languages of the world
- Island of inversion, the "island of inversion", a group of elements with abnormal nuclear shell structure
- 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
- In mathematics, inversion can mean:
- Inversion transformation, a conformal transformation
- Method of inversion, the image of a harmonic function in a sphere (or plane); see Method of image charges, also, Kelvin transform for an n-dimensional generalization.
- Circle inversion, a transformation of the Euclidean plane that maps generalized circles to generalized circles
- Inversion in a point, also called point reflection, is a kind of transformation in an Euclid space.
- Inversion of elements, a notion in Permutation group.
See also Inverse (mathematics)
[edit] Computer science
- Inversion (discrete mathematics), items that are out of order in a list
- Priority inversion, in which a low-priority task holds a shared resource that a high-priority task needs
[edit] Arts
- Inversion (artwork), a 2005 temporary sculpture in Houston, Texas
- Inversions (novel) by Iain M. Banks
- Inversion (video game), an upcoming third person shooter for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
[edit] Other
Anastrophe, also known as an inversion.
[edit] See also
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