📖 Definitions of "Invert"
noun
- 1
A homosexual.
- 2
An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
- 3
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.
- 4
The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
verb
- 1
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
"to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc."
- 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.
adjective
- 1
Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
"invert sugar"
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