| invention | 1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. "As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man." (Tatham) 2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. "We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished." (Evelyn) 3. Thought; idea. 4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. "Filling their hearers With strange invention." (Shak) 5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. "They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . For a poet is a maker." (Dryden) 6. The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross, a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena. Origin: L. Inventio: cf. F. Invention. See Invent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| inventories, hospital | Materials and equipment in stock; includes drugs in pharmacies, blood in blood banks, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| inventory | A detailed, often descriptive, list of items. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inventress | A woman who invents. Origin: Cf. L. Inventrix, F. Inventrice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| invermination | Synonym: helminthiasis. Origin: L. In, in, + vermis (vermin-), worm (05 Mar 2000) |
| inverse | 1. Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; opposed to direct. 2. <botany> Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual. 3. <mathematics> 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. <geometry> Inverse figures, two points lying on a line drawn from the center of a fixed circle or sphere, and so related that the product of their distances from the center of the circle or sphere is equal to the square of the radius. <mathematics> Inverse, or Reciprocal, ratio, the ratio of the reciprocals of two quantities. Inverse, or Reciprocal, proportion, an equality between a direct ratio and a reciprocal ratio; thus, 4: 2:: 1/3: 1/6, or 4: 2:: 3: 6, inversely. Origin: L. Inversus, p. P. Of invertere: cf. F. Inverse. See Invert. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inverse anaphylaxis | Anaphylactic shock in an animal (e.g., guinea pig) whose tissues contain Forssman antigen, resulting from an intravenous injection of serum that contains Forssman's antibody. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inverse density dependence | <epidemiology> See density dependence. (05 Dec 1998) |
| inverse ocular bobbing | Slow downward eye movement followed by delayed quick upward return. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inverse square law | As applied to point sources, the intensity of radiation diminishes in proportion to the square of the distance from the source. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inverse symmetry | Correspondence of the right or left side of an asymmetrical individual to the left or right side of another. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inverse syntropy | A situation in which the presence of one disease tends to decrease the possibility of another. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inversed jaw-winking syndrome | <syndrome> When there are supranuclear lesions of the trigeminal nerve, touching the cornea may produce a brisk movement of the mandible to the opposite side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inversion | 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. <mathematics> 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. 3. <genetics> An aberration in which a chromosomal segment is deleted and reinserted in the same place but turned 180 degrees from its original orientation, so that the gene sequence for the segment is reversed with respect to that of the rest of the chromosome. 4. <geometry> 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. 5. Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc. Said of a chord, when one of its notes, other than its root, is made the bass. 6. <geology> The folding back of strata upon themselves, as by upheaval, in such a manner that the order of succession appears to be reversed. 7. <chemistry> The act or process by which cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (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). The terms invert and inversion, in this sense, owe their meaning to the fact that the plane of polarization of light, which is rotated to the right by cane sugar, is turned toward the left by levulose. See: invert. Origin: L. Inversio: cf. F. Inversion. Source: Websters Dictionary (04 Jul 1999) |
| inversion heterozygote | <genetics> Individual in which one chromosome contains an inversion whereas the homologous chromosome does not. (18 Nov 1997) |
| involuntary |
not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start"
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make an investment; "Put money into bonds" endow: give qualities or abilities to furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights" induct: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
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smooth muscle: a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)
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| Invirase |
saquinavir: a weak protease inhibitor (trade name Invirase) used in treating HIV
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| invertebrate |
lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals" any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification
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| INV | illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses |
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| INV | illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses |
| INV | having incalculable monetary worth |
| INV | the positive quality of being precious and beyond value |
| INV | (trademark) an alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion |
| INV | the quality of being resistant to variation |
| INV | a quality of uniformity and lack of variation |
| INV | not liable to or capable of change |
| INV | the quality of being resistant to variation |
| INV | in an invariable manner |
| INV | the quality of being resistant to variation |
| INV | persistent in occurrence and unvarying in nature |