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      invert
      noun
      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.
      (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
      (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
      (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.
      (obsolete, psychology) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
      verb
      (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
      (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.
      (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
      To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
      adjective
      (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
      Roots
      verto-vert · Latin · turn
      Synonyms for invert
      reversevinverseadjflipadjrotatevturnvrevertvconvertv
      Words related to invert
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