inverting

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

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.
EXPAND
6.
Chemistry. to subject to inversion.
7.
Music. to subject to musical inversion.
8.
Phonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel.
COLLAPSE
verb (used without object)
9.
Chemistry. to become inverted.

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Inverting is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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; < Latin invertere to turn upside down or inside out, equivalent to in- in-2 + vertere to turn; see verse

in·vert·i·ble, adjective
in·vert·i·bil·i·ty, noun
non·in·vert·ed, adjective
un·in·vert·ed, adjective
un·in·vert·i·ble, adjective


2. See reverse.

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