Inversion

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Inversion (music), a term with various meanings in music theory and musical set theory
Inversion (artwork), a 2005 temporary sculpture in Houston, Texas
Inversions (novel) by Iain M. Banks
Inversion (video game), a 2012 third person shooter for, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC

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 (evolutionary biology), a hypothesis about the evolution of the dorsoventral axis in animals
Chromosomal inversion in genetics, where a segment of a chromosome is reversed end-to-end
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
Seismic inversion, transforming seismic reflection data into a quantitative rock-property description of a geological formation
Inversion (genetics/enzymology), directional change of an DNA-insert catalyzed by an invertase

Inversion transformation, a conformal transformation
Inversion in a point, also called point reflection, a kind of transformation in a Euclid space
Circle inversion, a transformation of the Euclidean plane that maps generalized circles to generalized circles
Inversion (discrete mathematics), items that are out of order in a permutation
Method of inversion, the image of a harmonic function in a sphere (or plane); see Method of image charges
Multiplicative inverse, the reciprocal of a number

Priority inversion, in which a low-priority task holds a shared resource that a high-priority task needs

Inversion (kinesiology), movement of the sole towards the median plane
Inversion therapy, the practise of hanging upside down (heart higher than head) for supposed health benefits

Inversion (linguistics), grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their order of appearance
Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's elements
Anastrophe, a figure of speech also known as an inversion

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