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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
invert1
▶verb /ɪnˈvəːt/ 
  • 1 put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement.
  • 2 Music modify (a phrase) by reversing the direction of pitch changes.

    ■ alter (an interval or chord) by changing the relative position of the notes in it.

  • 3 chiefly Mathematics subject to inversion.
▶noun /ˈɪnvəːt/ 
  • 1 an inverted arch, as at the lower surface of a sewer.
  • 2 Psychology, dated a homosexual.
  • 3 Philately a postage stamp printed with an error such that all or part of its design is upside down.
– derivatives
invertibility noun,
invertible adjective.
– origin C16: from L. invertere, lit. ‘turn inside out’.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
invert2 /ˈɪnvəːt/
▶noun informal short for invertebrate.



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