Usually means: To turn upside down, reverse.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. invert: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. invert, invert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. invert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. invert: Collins English Dictionary
  5. invert: Vocabulary.com
  6. Invert, invert: Wordnik
  7. invert: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. invert: Wiktionary
  9. invert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. invert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. invert: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. invert: Dictionary.com
  13. invert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. invert: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Invert (music), Invert: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Invert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. invert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. invert: Rhymezone
  19. Invert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. invert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. invert: Free Dictionary
  22. invert: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. invert: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. invert: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. invert: Graphic Design Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. invert: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invert: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Invert: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. invert: Medical dictionary
  4. Invert: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. invert: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invert: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
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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