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Inventory

To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.

inventorying

the act or process of making an inventory; making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand.

Inversely

In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.

Invertase

An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

Invertebrata

A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.

Invertebrate

Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebr/; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. One of the Invertebrata.

Invertin

An enzyme which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.

Invest

To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.

Investigate

To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation.

investigating

the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.

Investigation

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Investigative

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

investigatory

Of or pertaining to an investigation; accomplished by investigation; designed to find information or ascertain facts; as, investigatory committee; the investigatory excesses of the prosecutor.

investing

the act or process of expending resources, especially money, to achieve rewards.

Investment

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

invigilation

keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating.

invigilator

someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating.

Invigorate

To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

Invigoration

The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.

Invincibility

The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.

Invincible

Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.

Inviolability

The quality or state of being inviolable; inviolableness.

Inviolableness

The quality or state of being inviolable; as, the inviolableness of divine justice.

Inviolacy

The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath.

Invirile

Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate.

Invirility

Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy.

Inviscate

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.

Invisibility

The state or quality of being invisible; also, that which is invisible.

Invisible

An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.

invisible ink

A fluid that has no color in the visible spectrum, but may be detected under certain conditions, as under ultraviolet light. It may be used to write notes not readable under normal light.

Invisibleness

The quality or state of being invisible; invisibility.

Invision

Lack of vision or of the power of seeing.

invitational

open only to persons issued an invitation; -- of gatherings, usually sports events; as, an invitational tournament.

Invitatory

That which invites; specifically, the invitatory psalm, or a part of it used in worship.

Inviter

One who, or that which, invites.

Inviting

Alluring; tempting; as, an inviting amusement or prospect.

Invitrifiable

Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass.

Invocate

To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore.

Invocatory

Making or containing invocation; invoking.

Invoice

To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

Invoke

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.

Involucel

A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre.

Involucral

Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.

Involucre

A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head. A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns. The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Involucred

Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc.

Involuntarily

In an involuntary manner; not voluntarily; not intentionally or willingly.

Involuntariness

The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

Involute

A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.

Involuted Involute

Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in /stivation.

Involvement

The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

Inwall

An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace.

Inward

That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.

inward-moving

moving or directed toward the center or axis, especially when spinning or traveling in a curve.

Inwardness

Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.

Inweave

To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.

Inwit

Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.

Inworn

Worn, wrought, or stamped in.

Inwreathe

To surround or encompass as with a wreath.

Inwrought

Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures.

Io

In Greek mythology, the beautiful daughter of Inachus, king of Argos, Greece, who was changed by Hera (Juno), in a fit of jealousy, into a white heifer, and placed under the watch of Argus of the hundred eyes./ When Argus was killed by Hermes at the command of Zeus, the heifer was maddened by a terrible gadfly sent by Hera, and wandered about until she arrived in Egypt. There she recovered her original shape, and bore Epaphus to Zeus. Epaphus became the ancestor of /gyptus, Damaus, Cepheus, and Phineus. She was identified by the Egyptians with Isis. According to another legend, Io was carried off by Phoenician traders who landed in Argos. The myth is generally explained to be Aah or the moon wandering in the starry skies, symbolized by the hundred-eyed Argus; her transformation into a horned heifer representing the crescent moon.

Iodal

An oily liquid, CI3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

Iodhydrin

One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins.

Iodic

Pertaining to, or containing, iodine; specif., denoting those compounds in which it has a relatively high valence; as, iodic acid.

Iodide

A binary compound of iodine, or one which may be regarded as binary, in which iodine has a valence of -1; as, potassium iodide.

iodinate

to cause to combine with iodine; as, iodinate thyroxine.

iodinated

treated or reacted with iodine; treated so as to combine with iodine.

iodinating

combining or causing to combine with iodine; as, the active iodinating species; the in vivo iodinating mechanism. Inverse of de-iodinating.

iodination

the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds.

Iodine

A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group of atomic number 53, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.90. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.

Iodism

A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

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