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Definition of Invert

1. Verb. Make an inversion (in a musical composition). "Here the theme is inverted"

2. Verb. Reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of. "When forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"

3. Verb. Turn inside out or upside down.

Definition of Invert

1. v. t. To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

2. v. i. To undergo inversion, as sugar.

3. a. Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

4. n. An inverted arch.

Definition of Invert

1. Verb. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch. ¹

3. Noun. (archaic) A homosexual man. ¹

4. Noun. (context: architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). * ¹

5. Noun. 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. invert (in'?vert) The floor or bottom of the internal cross section of a closed conduit, such as an aqueduct, tunnel, or drain - The term originally referred to the inverted arch used to form the bottom of a masonry?lined sewer or tunnel (Jackson, 1997) Wilson, W.E., Moore, J.E., (2003) ''Glossary of Hydrology,'' Berlin: Springer ¹

6. Noun. (context: civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point. ¹

7. Noun. (context: civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Invert

1. to turn upside down [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Invert

1. 1. To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. "That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions." (Shak) "Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon." (Cowper) 2. To change the position of; said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony. 3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use. 4. To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion. To undergo inversion, as sugar. Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar. Invert sugar, a variety of sugar, consisting of a mixture of dextrose and levulose, found naturally in fruits, and produced artificially by the inversion of cane sugar (sucrose); also, less properly, the grape sugar or dextrose obtained from starch. Origin: L. Invertere, inversum; pref. In- in + vertere to turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Invert

inversing inversion heterozygote inversion of chromosomes inversion of control inversion of the uterus inversion pair inversion pairs inversion recovery inversion table inversion tables

inversion therapy inversionless inversions inversive invert soap invert sugar invertase invertases invertebral invertebrata

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Literary usage of Invert

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On the Specific Rotatory Power of Cane and invert Sugar. By ALFRED H. AI.LEN, FC8. The angular rotation produced by a plate of quartz of 1 mm. in thickness ..."

2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Sucrose (342) Water (18) Glucose (180) Fructose (ISO) invert Sugar (361)) It is seen from the above that one part of sucrose is converted into 5-7^ ..."

3. Food Chemicals Codex: First Supplement to the Fifth Edition by Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Institute of Medicine (U. S.) (2006)
"invert Sugar is marketed as invert Sugar Syrup and contains dextrose ... REQUIREMENTS Labeling Indicate the percentages of sucrose and invert Sugar. ..."

4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"invert Sugar. invert sugar, made by hydrolysing raw cane sugars with acid, ... invert sugar made from refined sugar lacks the lusciousness and other ..."

5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1892)
"The following remarks will offer some explanation : — The invert sugar of syrups is very ... Consequently, as soon as considerable invert sugar is present, ..."

6. Healthy Houses: A Handbook to the History, Defects, and Remedies of Drainage by William Eassie (1872)
"44 being what is called the plain invert ; Fig. 45, the lipped invert ; Fig. ... 47» the socketed invert. These vary only at the joint, as will readily be ..."

7. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"During the first operation of this plant the concrete for invert, after being mixed in the Hains mixer in the usual way, was run through to the front end on ..."

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