Inverse or Inversion may refer to:
- Sexual inversion (sexology), an older term for homosexuality
- Inverse (program), a program for solving Inverse and Optimization problems
- Inversion (music)
- Inversion (prosody), the reversal of the order of a foot's elements
- Inversion (law), reincorporation by a firm in a different country e.g. to save taxes
- 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
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
- Inversion (linguistics), a term referring to a number of different distinct grammatical constructions found in the languages of the world.
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
