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Inunction
- noun - anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
Inutility
- noun - the quality of having no practical use
Invection
- - An inveighing against; invective.
Invective
- noun - abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
Inventing
- verb - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- make up something artificial or untrue
Invention
- noun - a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
- the act of inventing
- the creation of something in the mind
Inventive
- adjective - (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
Inversion
- noun - (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
- a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
- the act of turning inside out
- the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- the reversal of the normal order of words
- turning upside down; setting on end
Inverting
- verb - make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
- turn inside out or upside down
Investing
- verb - furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
- give qualities or abilities to
- make an investment; "Put money into bonds"
- place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
- provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights"
- the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit