Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 14 compound words that contain inversion. The most common are listed below. Open inversion in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- inversion of controlAbstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs in which the flow of control of a system is inverted in comparison to the traditional architecture, getting the flow of control from a generic code part.
- population inversionThe creation of a system in which more atoms or molecules are in an excited state than in a ground state.
- circle inversionA transformation that maps any point P ≠ O to the point P’ on the ray from O through P for which OP × OP’ = r², and which maps O to the point at infinity.
- temperature inversionAn atmospheric condition in which a cooler layer of air lies below a warmer layer of air that functions as a "ceiling" for the cooler layer, interfering with normal atmospheric circulation and trapping pollutants.
- dependency inversion principleDesign principle that states that (1) High- and low-level modules should both depend on abstractions and (2) instead of abstractions depending upon details, details should depend upon abstractions.
- first inversiona position of a chord when the third of the chord is the lowest note
- inversion tableA device to enable a person to be comfortably upside-down as part of inversion therapy.
- inversion therapyA therapy in which the patient hangs upside down or at an inverted angle, claimed to treat backache etc.
- nitrogen inversionThe rapid inversion of the lone pair in a molecule such as a tertiary amine which prevents it from being chiral.
- second inversionThe position of a chord when the fifth of the chord is the lowest note.
- third inversiona position of a seventh chord when the seventh of the chord is the lowest note
- Walden inversionThe inversion of a chiral center in a molecule in a chemical reaction, converting the configuration of the molecule from one enantiomeric form to the other.
- retrograde inversionA technique where the composer will take the inversion of the tone row, and write that backwards, thus creating a retrograded inversion of the original note row.
- island of inversionA region of the chart of nuclides that contains isotopes with a non-standard ordering of single particle levels in the nuclear shell model.
- islands of inversionplural of island of inversion: A region of the chart of nuclides that contains isotopes with a non-standard ordering of single particle levels in the nuclear shell model.
- inversion paira pair of integers (i,j) is an inversion pair of some permutation σ if iσ(j).
- inversion pairsplural of inversion pair: a pair of integers (i,j) is an inversion pair of some permutation σ if iσ(j).
- inversion tablesplural of inversion table: A device to enable a person to be comfortably upside-down as part of inversion therapy.
- sexual inversionHomosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits.
Compound words 14
- coinversionThe inversion operation of a cogroup object. A coinversion must satisfy the dual versions of the axioms for group objects.
- inversionistOne who inverts something.
- pseudoinversionAn operation that approximates an inversion; A reversal of the ends while maintaining a constant central region.
- inversionalRelating to inversion.
- inversionlessThat does not involve inversion
- microinversionA small-scale genetic inversion
- noninversionAbsence of inversion; failure to invert something (such as a clause in a sentence).
- reinversionA second or subsequent inversion.
- rotoinversionThe combination of a rotation and an inversion in a point on the axis.
- stereoinversionAny reaction that inverts the chiral centre of a compound