Conversion vs. Inversion
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The act of converting something or someone.
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(computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
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(chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
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(rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
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(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
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(marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
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(law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
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(linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
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(obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
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(logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
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(math) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
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The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
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The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
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An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.
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The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
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A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
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A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
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A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.
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an event that results in a transformation
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a change in the units or form of an expression:
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a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
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a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
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a change of religion;
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interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
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act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
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the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
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the process of changing or causing something to change from one form to another
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the adaptation of a building or part of a building for a new use
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a building that has been adapted for a new use
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the changing of real property into personalty, or of joint into separate property, or vice versa.
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the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition according to certain rules to form a new proposition by inference.
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the fact of changing one's religion or beliefs or the action of persuading someone else to change theirs
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repentance and change to a godly life
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a successful kick at goal after a try, scoring two points
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an act of converting a touchdown or a down.
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(in the context of online marketing) the proportion of people viewing an advertisement and going on to buy the product, click on a link, etc.
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the action of wrongfully dealing with goods in a manner inconsistent with the owner's rights
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the manifestation of a mental disturbance as a physical disorder or disease
Inversionnoun
The action of inverting.
Inversionnoun
Being upside down, in an inverted state.
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Being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state.
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(music)
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The move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
Inversionnoun
The reversal of an interval.
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The reversal of the pitch contour.
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The reversal of a pitch class succession, such as a contrapuntal line or melody.
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The subtraction of pitch classes in a set from twelve, which maps intervals onto their complements with respect to 0, and preserves interval classes, symbolized IX (X being the transposition that is inverted.).
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(genetics) a segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome
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(meteorology) An increase of air temperature with increase in altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air). When an inversion exists, there are no convection currents and wind speeds are below 5 knots. The atmosphere is stable and normally is considered the most favorable state for ground release of chemical agents.
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(grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
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(algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
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Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
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The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.
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A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.
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The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed.
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The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or enzymes (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).
Inversionnoun
A reversal of the usual temperature gradient of the atmosphere, in which the temperature increases with increased altitude, rather than falling. Called also temperature inversion.
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The conversion of direct current into alternating current; the inverse of rectification. See inverted rectifier.
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A portion of the genome in which the DNA has been turned around, and runs in a direction opposite to its normal direction, and consequently the genes are present in the reverse of their usual order.
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the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
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abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
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a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
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(genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
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the reversal of the normal order of words
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(counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ll ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
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a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
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turning upside down; setting on end
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the act of turning inside out
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the action of inverting something or the state of being inverted
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reversal of the normal order of words, typically for rhetorical effect but also found in the regular formation of questions in English.
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the process of inverting an interval, chord, or phrase.
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an inverted interval, chord, or phrase.
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a transposition in the relative numbers of atoms, molecules, etc. occupying particular energy levels.
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a reaction causing a change from one optically active configuration to the opposite configuration, especially the hydrolysis of dextrose to give a laevorotatory solution of fructose and glucose.
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a reversal of the normal decrease of air temperature with altitude, or of water temperature with depth.
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a layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases with height.
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the process of finding a quantity, function, etc. from a given one such that the product of the two under a particular operation is the identity.
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the interchanging of numerator and denominator of a fraction, or antecedent and consequent of a ratio.
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the process of finding the expression which gives a given expression under a given transformation.
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a transformation in which each point of a given figure is replaced by another point on the same straight line from a fixed point, especially in such a way that the product of the distances of the two points from the centre of inversion is constant.
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the action or practice of relocating a multinational company's legal residence to a jurisdiction where taxes are levied at a lower rate
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homosexuality.
