Thursday, April 26, 2007

in·vert
verb (used with object)
1.to turn upside down.
2.to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
3.to turn or change to the opposite or contrary, as in nature, bearing, or effect: to invert a process.
4.to turn inward or back upon itself.
5.to turn inside out.
6.Chemistry. to subject to inversion.
7.Music. to subject to musical inversion.
8.Phonetics. to articulate as a retroflex vowel.
–verb (used without object)
9.Chemistry. to become inverted.
–adjective
10.Chemistry. subjected to inversion.
–noun
11.a person or thing that is inverted.

("invert" Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 26 Apr. 2007)