INVERT


Meaning of INVERT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnvɜ:(r)t ]

( inverts, inverting, inverted)

1.

If you invert something, you turn it the other way up or back to front. ( FORMAL )

Invert the cake onto a cooling rack.

...a black inverted triangle.

VERB : V n , V-ed

2.

If you invert something, you change it to its opposite. ( FORMAL )

They may be hoping to invert the presumption that a defendant is innocent until proved guilty.

...a telling illustration of inverted moral values.

VERB : V n , V-ed

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