inversion
Example Sentences
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Using the buoy data in a technique known as inversion, the team reexamined the source of the tsunami.
From Science Daily
We will continue to watch January VIX futures versus February VIX futures for signs of inversion; that is not in the cards right now, as February continues to trade higher than January.
From MarketWatch
Yet Masaomi Yasunaga does just that with his sculptures that draw on Japanese pottery traditions while transforming the creative process through a daring inversion.
Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.
From Salon
For some hardcore boxing fans, that inversion is part of the problem.
From BBC
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