Inversion

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Inversion or inversions may refer to:

Music and arts

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

Natural sciences

• Inversion (evolutionary biology), a hypothesis about the evolution of the dorsoventral axis in animals
• Inversion (geology), the relative uplift of a previously basinal area resulting from local shortening, in structural geology
• Inversion (meteorology), air temperature increasing with height
• 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

Mathematics and logic

• Inversion (discrete mathematics), items that are out of order in a permutation
• Circle inversion, a transformation of the Euclidean plane that maps generalized circles to generalized circles
• Inversion in a point, also called point reflection, a kind of transformation in a Euclid space
• Inversion transformation, a conformal transformation
• 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

Computer science

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

Medicine and kinesiology

• 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

Linguistics and language

• 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

Other uses

• Inversion in postcolonial theory, a discursive strategy/gesture in cultural and subaltern studies
• Roller coaster inversion, which turns riders upside-down

See also

• Inverse (disambiguation)
• Inverter (disambiguation)
• Sexual inversion (disambiguation)

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