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inversivity

inversivity noun: the quality of being inversive.

Noun

inversivity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being inversive.
    • Finally, we should mention some recent work by Emde, Habel, and Rollinger [10] that also involves the discovery of qualitative laws. In this case, the focus is on determining whether predicates obey certain relations, such as transitivity or inversivity.1984 September 1, Pat Langley, Jan Zytkow, Herbert A[lexander] Simon, Gary L. Bradshaw, “Comments on GLAUBER”, in The Search for Regularity: Four Aspects of Scientific Discovery (CMU-RI-TR-84-20)...
    • Some more recent work by Emde, Habel, and Rollinger (1983) addresses a problem very similar to Brown’s task. In this case, the method examines whether predicates obey certain higher-level relations, such as transitivity or inversivity.1985 July 15, Pat Langley, Herbert A[lexander] Simon, Jan M[ikołaj] Zytkow, Douglas H. Fisher, “Some Other Discovery Systems”, in Discovering Qualitative Empirical Laws (AD-A159 235), Irvine, Calif....
    Synonyms:
    inversiveness

Examples of inversivity in a sentence

  • It follows (using inversivity) that the σ(cᵢ) are linearly independent over K′.2004 February 5, Ehud Hrushovski, “Components”, in The Elementary Theory of the Frobenius Automorphisms, part I (Difference schemes)...
  • We will call a polynomial root-unitary if its roots all lie on the unit circle; this clearly implies self-inversivity.2007 September 25, Kiran S[ridhara] Kedlaya, “Definitions”, in Search Techniques for Root-Unitary Polynomials, page 1:
  • Then E-inversivity follows easily: x′xx′ = x′(xx′) = x\(x/x) = x′.2010 March 31, João Araújo, Michael Kinyon, “New Characterizations”, in Axioms for Unary Semigroups via Division Operations, page 5:
  • Apparently you did not detect the violation of frequency-time inversivity employed by BB&N and W&A.2011 July 2, Herbert Blenner, “Where are BBN's and W&A's rebuttal to the cross-talk evidence and”, in alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet)...

Synonyms of inversivity

Origin of inversivity

From inversive + -ity.

Questions about inversivity

What does inversivity mean?
Inversivity means the quality of being inversive.
How do you use inversivity in a sentence?
It follows (using inversivity) that the σ(cᵢ) are linearly independent over K′.
What part of speech is inversivity?
Inversivity is a noun.

Words near inversivity in the dictionary

  1. inversive
  2. inversive geometries
  3. inversive geometry
  4. inversively
  5. inversiveness
  6. inversivity
  7. Inversnaid
  8. inversus
  9. invert
  10. invert enzyme
  11. invert sugar

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