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- English Word Inventorying Definition of Inventory
- English Word Inventress Definition A woman who invents.
- English Word Inveracity Definition Want of veracity.
- English Word Inverisimilitude Definition Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.
- English Word Inverse Definition Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.
- English Word Inverse Definition Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
- English Word Inverse Definition Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x.
- English Word Inverse Definition That which is inverse.
- English Word Inversely Definition In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.
- English Word Inversion Definition The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.
- English Word Inversion Definition A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.
- English Word Inversion Definition A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on.
- English Word Inversion Definition A change in the order of the terms of a proportion, so that the second takes the place of the first, and the fourth of the third.
- English Word Inversion Definition A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse.
- English Word Inversion Definition A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, "of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable," instead of, "impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices."
- English Word Inversion Definition A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.
- English Word Inversion Definition Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.
- English Word Inversion Definition Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass.
- English Word Inversion Definition Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa.
- English Word Inversion Definition Said of double counterpoint, when an upper and a lower part change places.
- English Word Inversion Definition The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.
- English Word Inversion Definition The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).
- English Word Invert Definition To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
- English Word Invert Definition To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
- English Word Invert Definition To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- English Word Invert Definition To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
- English Word Invert Definition To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- English Word Invert Definition Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
- English Word Invert Definition An inverted arch.
- English Word Invertebral Definition Same as Invertebrate.