Invert

Invert - Other Definitions

• (v. t.) To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
  
  
• (v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
  
  
• (v. t.) To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
  
  
• (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
  
  
• (v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
  
  
• (a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
  
  
• (n.) An inverted arch.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Invert
  
  
• (a.) Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
  
  
• (a.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.