[in-vur-ter] 
| 1. | a person or thing that inverts. |
| 2. | Electricity. a device that converts direct current into alternating current. |
[v. in-vurt; adj., n. in-vurt] | 1. | to turn upside down. |
| 2. | to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship. |
| 3. | to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect: to invert a process. |
| 4. | to turn inward or back upon itself. |
| 5. | to turn inside out. |
| 6. | Chemistry. to subject to inversion. |
| 7. | Music. to subject to musical inversion. |
| 8. | Phonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel. |
| 9. | Chemistry. to become inverted. |
| 10. | Chemistry. subjected to inversion. |
| 11. | a person or thing that is inverted. |
| 12. | a homosexual. |
| 13. | (in plumbing) that portion of the interior of a drain or sewer pipe where the liquid is deepest. |
| 14. | an inverted arch or vault. |
| 15. | Philately. a two-colored postage stamp with all or part of the central design printed upside down in relation to the inscription. |
| in·vert·er (ĭn-vûr'tər) n.
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invert in·vert (ĭn-vûrt')
v. in·vert·ed, in·vert·ing, in·verts
To turn inside out or upside down.
To reverse the position, order, or condition of.
To subject to inversion.
Something inverted.
One who takes on the gender role of the opposite sex.
A homosexual. Used in psychology.
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