invert🔊

To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

(music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

(chemistry) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

(anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.

(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.

(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.

(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.

A skateboarding 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.

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

(zoology, informal) An invertebrate.