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▸ adjective: Reverse, opposite in order.
▸ adjective: (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
▸ adjective: (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
▸ adjective: (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion.
▸ adjective: (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
▸ noun: An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards.
▸ noun: The result of an inversion, particularly:
▸ noun: The reverse of any procedure or process.
▸ noun: (mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
▸ noun: (geometry) The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
▸ noun: (logic) The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
▸ noun: (mathematics) A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the binary operation—when applied to both it and an initially given element—yields the operation's identity element, specifically:
▸ noun: (addition) The negative of a given number.
▸ noun: (multiplication) One divided by a given number.
▸ noun: (functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
▸ noun: (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
▸ noun: (card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.
▸ noun: (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
▸ verb: (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.
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