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Verb
/inˈvərt/,
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inverted, past participle; inverts, 3rd person singular present; inverting, present participle; inverted, past tense;
  1. Put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement
    • - invert the mousse onto a serving plate
  2. Modify (a phrase) by reversing the direction of pitch changes

  3. Alter (an interval or triad) by changing the relative position of the notes in it

  4. Subject to inversion; transform into its inverse

Noun
  1. An arch constructed in an upside-down position to provide lateral support, e.g., in a tunnel

  2. The concave lower surface of a sewer or drain

  3. A person showing sexual inversion; a homosexual

  4. A postage stamp printed with an error such that part of its design is upside down

  1. make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"
  2. reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
  3. turn back: turn inside out or upside down
  4. (inverted) being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"
  5. (inverted) anatropous: (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
  6. (inversion) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
  7. (Inversion (computer science)) Inversion in a sequence refers to a pair of numbers that are "out of order" with respect to an ascending or descending order.
  8. (Inversion (evolutionary biology)) In evolutionary developmental biology, inversion refers to the hypothesis that during the course of animal evolution, the structures along the dorsoventral (DV) axis have taken on an orientation opposite that of the ancestral form. ...
  9. (Inversion (geology)) In structural geology inversion or basin inversion relates to the relative uplift of a sedimentary basin or similar structure as a result of crustal shortening. ...
  10. (Inversion (geometry)) In geometry, inversive geometry is the study of a type of transformation of the Euclidean plane, called inversions. ...
  11. (Inversion (kinesiology)) Inversion is the movement of the sole towards the median plane (as when an ankle is twisted).
  12. (Inversion (linguistics)) In linguistics, grammatical inversion is any of a number of different distinct grammatical constructions in the languages of the world. ...
  13. A homosexual man; An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *; 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. ...
  14. (inverted) Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary; (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher; (of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar
  15. (Inverted) A bat rubber type with a smooth finish but which grips well. Also capable of producing a tremendous amount of spin. Also known as Pips-in.
  16. (Inverted) A body position where the shoulders are below the waist.
  17. (Inverted) Used of a charge turned 180 degrees from its normal position.
  18. (Inverted) the same, only upside down; the sleeves are at the top.
  19. (Inverted) turned inside out or inwards.
  20. (inverted) an upside-down Tarot card during a Tarot reading. An inverted card negates the reading of that card, making what would have otherwise been a positive reading into a negative one.
  21. (inverted) sentence  Reversing the normal subject - verb - complement order.  Poets do this sometimes to conform to normal rhyme and rhythm patterns.  Prose writers sometimes do this for emphasis.      example-    "Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door . . . ...
  22. (Inverting) 1. Mounting a cymbal upside down. Frequently used with Chinese style cymbals. 2. Turning a cymbals edge inside out where the cup still faces in the original direction (for example Paiste Novo China)
  23. (Inverting) Finding yourself upside down after falling.
  24. (Inverting) Typically the output of a mixer in which the Local Oscillator frequency is above the input frequency and the output is the difference of the two frequencies.
  25. (Inverting) refers to the conversion of a DC voltage source into AC voltage.