inverted
verb
Meaning
- To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- To turn (the foot) inwards.
- Having the order or direction changed; for example turned upside down, reversed or in any other way opposite or contrary.
- Homosexual.
- (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
- (of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
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