Vocabulary : Inventory to Inversion

Inventory : An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. ;; To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.
Inventorying : of Inventory
Inventress : A woman who invents.
Inveracity : Want of veracity.
Inverisimilitude : Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.
Inverness : Alt. of Inverness cape
Inverness cape : A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.
Inverse : Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct. ;; Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual. ;; Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x. ;; That which is inverse.
Inversely : In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.
Inversion : The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. ;; A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; 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." ;; 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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