Inverse
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Inverse or Inversion may refer to:
- Inversion (music)
- Priority inversion, in which a low-priority task holds a shared resource that a high-priority task needs
- Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's elements
- Mirror image
- Inverted pyramid, a way to arrange information in a news story
- Inverted sugar syrup
- Roller coaster inversions, which turn riders upside-down
In mathematics:
- Inverse (mathematics), the opposite of something
- Inverse matrix
- Inverse function, <math>f^{-1}(f(x)) = x</math>
- Pseudoinverse, a generalization of the inverse matrix
- Inverse (logic), <math>\lnot P \to \lnot Q</math> is the inverse of <math>P \to Q</math>
- Inversion (geometry), a particular geometric transformation of a plane
See also: Negative and non-negative numbers
In technology:
- Inverter (electrical), which converts direct current to alternating current
- Inverter (logic gate) (or 'NOT gate')
- Inverse multiplexer (or 'demultiplexer'), which breaks a single data stream into several streams with lower data rates
In science:
- inversion (meteorology), air temperature increasing with height
- Nitrogen inversion, in chemistry
- Population inversion, in statistical mechanics, when a system exists in state with more members in an excited state than in lower energy states
- Chromosomal inversion, where a segment of a chromosome is reversed end to end
- Inverse problem, in science and mathematics, fitting a model to known data
- Sexual inversion, in biology, the switching from one sex to the opposite among some animal species.
Other meanings:
- Program Inverse for solving Inverse and Optimization problems.
[edit] 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
- Terminology of homosexuality#Other late 19th and early 20th century sexological terms.
- Voice inversion a method of scrambling communications
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