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  • noun Plural form of inversion.

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Examples

  • It's going to be a long and slow decline, peppered with short-term inversions, but ultimately Office Max and

    The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning 2009

  • 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.

    More Rants from Volkskrant « Climate Audit 2005

  • 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.

    Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

  • And for those days when your energy is sagging, poses called inversions may help [you reenergize.

    CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2003 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • [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

  • This did not convince some people, who scented a cover-up and argued that pilots and radar operators were familiar with temperature inversions.

    Weatherwatch: UFOs or temperature? 2011

  • 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.

    Wyoming is beset by a big-city problem: Smog 2011

  • 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.

    The Rise of Coney Island's Eagle 2011

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