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- noun Plural form of
inversion .
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Examples
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It's going to be a long and slow decline, peppered with short-term inversions, but ultimately Office Max and
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For reference, there is machine Dutch-English at www.altavista.com, which I used here together with a little editing I know no Dutch, but am used to the word inversions from similar translations from German and that’s the basis of my editing.
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Less favorable regions suffer from vertical wind shear and atmospheric stability structures such as inversions associated with the atmospheric circulation that make conditions less conducive to vortex development Latif et al., 2007.
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And for those days when your energy is sagging, poses called inversions may help [you reenergize.
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She had a fear of what they call "inversions," which, in yoga, means standing on your head.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Erica Manfred 2010
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Houston and Laredo were among the top three cities in levels of carbon monoxide, but El Paso won the prize, partly because its mountainous topography sometimes provides "inversions" that trap pollution.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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[1], such as inversions, small insertions/deletions or large copy-number variants (CNVs) [2]
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Benjamin Schuster-B�ckler et al. 2010
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This did not convince some people, who scented a cover-up and argued that pilots and radar operators were familiar with temperature inversions.
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They result from a combination of gas industry emissions, snow on the ground, bright sunshine and temperature inversions, in which cool air near the ground is covered by a layer of warmer air.
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The Soarin' Eagle roller coaster "suspends riders in a horizontal position, sending them on a series of dives and inversions," according to the city's announcement heralding the new ride.
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