invert

English

(verb):
- (UK) IPA: /ɪnˈvɜːt/, X-SAMPA: /In"v3:t/
- (US) enPR: ĭn-vərtʹ, IPA: /ɪnˈvɝt/, X-SAMPA: /In"v3`t/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t
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(noun):
- (UK) IPA: /ˈɪnvɜːt/, X-SAMPA: /"Inv3:t/
- (US) enPR: ĭnʹvərt, IPA: /ˈɪnvɝt/, X-SAMPA: /"Inv3`t/
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invert (third-person singular simple present inverts, present participle inverting, simple past and past participle inverted)

(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out.
(transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
(chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

turn upside down or inside out

move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave

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invert (plural inverts)

(archaic) A homosexual man.
(architecture) 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. ^[1]
(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

homosexual — see homosexual

architecture: inverted arch

engineering: lowest point inside pipe

engineering: elevation of pipe

invert (not comparable)

(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
invert sugar

^ invert (in'‑vert) The floor or bottom of the internal cross section of a closed conduit, such as an aqueduct, tunnel, or drain - The term originally referred to the inverted arch used to form the bottom of a masonry‑lined sewer or tunnel (Jackson, 1997) Wilson, W.E., Moore, J.E., (2003) Glossary of Hydrology, Berlin: Springer

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