Inverse

Inverse or Inversion could mean:

 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 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

 Related pages 
 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 farther inland
 Obverse and reverse, in coins
 Opposite
 Reverse
 Reverse perspective, in art, the farther the object, the larger it is drawn
 Voice inversion, a method of scrambling communications