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in⋅vert

[v. in-vurt; adj., n. in-vurt]

–verb (used with object)

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.

–verb (used without object)

9.	Chemistry. to become inverted.

–adjective

10.	Chemistry. subjected to inversion.

–noun

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.

Origin:
1525–35; < L invertere to turn upside down or inside out, equiv. to in- in- ² + vertere to turn; see verse

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