n the merchandise that a shop has on hand
they carried a vast inventory of hardware they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory
n (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
n a collection of resources
n making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand
an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing they held an inventory every month
n a function obtained by expressing the dependent variable of one function as the independent variable of another; f and g are inverse functions if f(x)=y and g(y)=x