Usually means: Reversal and inversion of theme.
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  1. retrograde inversion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retrograde inversion: Wiktionary
  3. Retrograde inversion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retrograde inversion)

noun:  (music) A technique where the composer will take the inversion of the tone row, and write that backwards, thus creating a retrograded inversion of the original note row.
noun:  (music) A composition technique where the composer inverts the retrograde of a melody or makes the retrograde of the inversion of the melody, using only notes in the same key as the original melody.

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