inversion casting

American  

noun

Metallurgy.

1. casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.

2. a process of casting, used especially for small statuary or the like, in which the mold is inverted after the outer surfaces have hardened so as to drain off the molten metal at the center.

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Example Sentences

This inversion, casting anti-racist activists as the real racists, is familiar to Ian Haney López, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in critical race theory.

From New York Times