inverts

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

vertovert- · Latin · turn

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