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invert

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɜːt/

The English word “invert” has 14 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.
  2. To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
  3. To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  4. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
  5. To turn (the foot) inwards.

noun

  1. An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
  2. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
  3. The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
  4. An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
  5. A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
  6. A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
  7. Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
  8. An invertebrate.

adjective

  1. Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

Etymology

From Middle French invertir.

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