How to pronounce “inverse”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Opposite in effect, nature or order.
• Reverse, opposite in order.
• (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
• (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.
• (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.
• (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.
• The result of an inversion, particularly:
• (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:
• (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
• (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.
• (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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