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invertō — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • invert verb To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.

Senses

invertō is used for these senses in English:

  • invert (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
  • turn upside down (transitive, intransitive) To flip over; to rotate top to bottom.

invert — full definition

  1. verb To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction; to make (something) the opposite of it.
  2. verb To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
  3. verb To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  4. verb To divert; to convert to a wrong use.