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Definition of Inverted
1. Adjective. Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed. "An upside-down cake"
2. Adjective. (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk.
Definition of Inverted
1. a. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
Definition of Inverted
1. Adjective. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary. ¹
2. Adjective. (music) (''of a chord'') Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher ¹
3. Adjective. (chemistry) (''of sugar'') Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar ¹
4. Verb. (past of invert) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inverted
1. invert [v] - See also: invert
Medical Definition of Inverted
1.
1. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterised by inversion.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inverted
Literary usage of Inverted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Alternating Current Machinery by Ralph Restieaux Lawrence (1920)
"When a converter is used inverted, that is, when it is used to transform from
... The conditions existing in an inverted converter are very different from ..."
2. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"A theme may be removed, contracted, and inverted—1 2 4. 47. A theme may be removed,
... A theme may be contracted, inverted, and added to—2 4 9. 58. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"On using the inverted image, a convex lens of 10 diopters is held in front ...
The emmetropic eye-ground will appear as an inverted image at a distance of ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Dr. Ricketts found that the temperature at which the deviation of a solution of
inverted sugar becomes 0 is not 90° C., as given bv some authors, but 92°, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"At the end of six weeks, a rather copious hemorrhage occurred; the uterus was
found to be still inverted, and could not be replaced. ..."
6. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"An inverted period, which deviates from the natural train of ideas, requires to
be marked in fome ..."
7. Principles of Alternating Current Machinery by Ralph Restieaux Lawrence (1920)
"When a converter is used inverted, that is, when it is used to transform from
... The conditions existing in an inverted converter are very different from ..."
8. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"A theme may be removed, contracted, and inverted—1 2 4. 47. A theme may be removed,
... A theme may be contracted, inverted, and added to—2 4 9. 58. ..."
9. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"On using the inverted image, a convex lens of 10 diopters is held in front ...
The emmetropic eye-ground will appear as an inverted image at a distance of ..."
10. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Dr. Ricketts found that the temperature at which the deviation of a solution of
inverted sugar becomes 0 is not 90° C., as given bv some authors, but 92°, ..."
11. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"At the end of six weeks, a rather copious hemorrhage occurred; the uterus was
found to be still inverted, and could not be replaced. ..."
12. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"An inverted period, which deviates from the natural train of ideas, requires to
be marked in fome ..."
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