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inverter shop
inverter shop: a place in Balapur, Ranga Reddy, Telangana, India, mapped in OpenStreetMap (node 4405187989) as a casino (amenity=casino) despite its shop-like name; near Mandal Grounds and Chaitanyapuri metro station.
Invertible matrix
An invertible matrix, also called a non-singular matrix, is a square matrix with an inverse that multiplies it to give the identity; such an inverse exists exactly when the determinant is nonzero.
Invertible neural network
An invertible neural network is a neural network whose mapping is a differentiable bijection, so it transforms probability densities exactly and supports generative modeling, density estimation, and reversible data transformations.
Invesco
Invesco is a global investment management firm, organized in Bermuda and headquartered in Atlanta, that managed about $2.2 trillion in assets as of the end of 2025.
INVEST (mnemonic)
INVEST is a mnemonic checklist in agile software development for judging user stories, standing for Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable, coined by Bill Wake in 2003.
Investcorp
Investcorp is a Bahrain-headquartered alternative investment manager established in 1982 to connect surplus Gulf capital with investment prospects in the United States and Europe.
Investec
Investec is a banking and wealth management group founded in Johannesburg in 1974, dual listed in London and Johannesburg and focused on Southern Africa and the UK.
Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence
The Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPKI, Indonesian: Badan Penyelidik Usaha-usaha Persiapan Kemerdekaan Indonesia) was a Japanese-created body of 1945 that prepared Indonesia's independence.
Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery (ID), an American true crime pay-TV network launched January 27, 2008 as the rebrand of Discovery Times Channel, formerly Discovery Civilization; reaching about 80 million U.S. households and now under Skydance after Paramount's takeover.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) is Elio Petri's 1970 Italian political satire starring Gian Maria Volonté as a police chief who murders his mistress and plants evidence against himself; it won the 1970 Cannes Grand Prix and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Investigational Therapies
Investigational therapies, also called experimental or innovative therapies, are drugs, biologics, and devices not yet approved for a use, tested in clinical trials; insurers often deny coverage for them.
Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster
The investigations into the Chernobyl disaster are the official and scientific inquiries into the 26 April 1986 explosion of Chernobyl Unit 4, moving from blaming operators to blaming design.
Investigations into the Eric Adams administration
Investigations into the Eric Adams administration: federal, state, and city corruption probes of the New York mayor (2022-2025), his 2021 campaign, Turkish donations, his 2024 indictment, the 2025 DOJ-ordered dismissal, and later inner-circle charges.
Investigations into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal
Investigations into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal: the Jay Report (1,400 children, 1997–2013), Casey inspection, Operation Stovewood (NCA, 26+ convictions), and IOPC inquiries into South Yorkshire Police failings.
Investigations of levee failures during Hurricane Katrina
The investigations of levee failures during Hurricane Katrina were forensic engineering studies from 2005 through 2009 that determined why New Orleans' protection system breached in 2005.
Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism: systematic, in-depth, original reporting that unearths secrets and holds power accountable. Covers muckraking history, IRE, ProPublica, ICIJ, methods, ethics, funding, and constraints.
Investigator Rupes
Investigator Rupes is a 390 km lobate scarp, a thrust-fault escarpment on Mercury, named for the Australian research ship RV Investigator and adopted in 2021.
Investigatory Powers Act 2016
Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA, "Snoopers' Charter"), UK statute 2016 c. 25 consolidating interception, communications data, equipment interference and bulk personal dataset powers, with the double-lock judicial approval system, Investigatory Powers Commissioner oversight, and 2024 amendments.
Investigatory Powers Commissioner
The Investigatory Powers Commissioner is a UK judicial officeholder, operating since September 2017, who reviews and audits public authorities' use of interception, communications data, and equipment interference.
Investindustrial
Investindustrial is a European mid-market private-equity firm founded in 1990 by Andrea C. Bonomi, headquartered in London, which has raised over €17 billion and invested in Ducati and Aston Martin.
Investissement Québec
Investissement Québec is a Quebec government corporation, created in its present form in 2010, that finances businesses, attracts foreign investment, and administers economic development funds.
Investiture
Investiture (Latin investitura, from vestire) is the formal installation into an office or fief by symbolic transfer; the term also names the 1076-1122 Investiture Controversy, settled by the Concordat of Worms.
Investiture Controversy
The Investiture Controversy was a 1076 to 1122 dispute between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire over whether rulers could appoint bishops, settled by the Concordat of Worms.
Investiture of Buluggin ibn Ziri
The investiture of Buluggin ibn Ziri (تولية بلكين بن زيري) was the 972 appointment by Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz of Buluggin ibn Ziri as governor of the Maghrib, based at Kairouan.
Investiture of Mahmud of Ghazni
The investiture of Mahmud of Ghazni (یمین الدوله و امین المله) was the Abbasid caliph al-Qadir's recognition in 999 of Mahmud of Ghazni as an independent ruler, breaking with the Samanids.
Investiture of the Gods (封神演义)
Investiture of the Gods, also called Fengshen Yanyi, is a Ming dynasty Chinese novel in which Jiang Ziya appoints 365 gods after the fall of the Shang.
Investiture of Zimri-Lim
The Investiture of Zimri-Lim, also written Investiture of Zimrilim, is a large wall painting from the royal palace of Mari, Syria, showing a goddess handing power symbols to a king.
Investment
Investment in economics means gross additions to an economy's productive capital, mainly new factories and machines, which differs from the popular use for buying stocks or bonds.
Investment banking
Investment banking, also known as I-banking, is the branch of finance in which banks raise debt and equity capital and advise on mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings.
Investment casting
Investment casting, also called lost-wax casting (cire perdue), is a metal-forming process in which a wax pattern is coated with ceramic to make a one-time mold for molten metal.