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▸ verb: (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
▸ verb: (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
▸ verb: To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
▸ verb: (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
▸ noun: (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
▸ 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.
▸ noun: (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
▸ noun: (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
▸ 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.
▸ noun: (obsolete, psychology) A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
▸ noun: (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
▸ adjective: (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
▸ noun: (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
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reverse,
turn about,
transpose,
intervert,
inturn,
turn round,
turn,
return,
convert,
transvert,
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