INVERSE

'Inverse' or 'Inversion' may refer to:

★ Terminology_of_homosexuality former term for homosexuality

★ Inverse (program), a program for solving Inverse and Optimization problems

★ Inversion (band), a British band

★ Inversion (music)

★ Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's elements

★ 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

Contents

Science

Technology

See also

Science

★ Inverse (mathematics)

★ Inversion (geometry), a particular type of conformal mapping

★ 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

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