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Inspection
- noun - a formal or official examination; "the platoon stood ready for review"; "we had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator"
Insulation
- noun - a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
- the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
- the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel"
Intimation
- noun - a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen"
- an indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her"
Intinction
- unknown - Intinction is the Eucharistic practice of partly dipping the consecrated bread, or host, into the consecrated wine
Intonation
- noun - rise and fall of the voice pitch
- singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
- the act of singing in a monotonous tone
- the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations
Intubation
- noun - the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ
Inundation
- noun - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
Invitation
- noun - a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitation away"
- a tempting allurement; "she was an invitation to trouble"
Invocation
- noun - a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
- an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil
- calling up a spirit or devil
- the act of appealing for help
Involution
- noun - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
- the action of enfolding something
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power