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