Invert
verb
To turn something upside down or change the order of two things.
They inverted the picture to make it look correct.
Often appears as...
- invert the order
- invert the image
verb
In mathematics, to find the inverse of a function or an element.
When you invert a fraction, the numerator and the denominator are swapped.
Often appears as...
- invert a fraction
- invert a matrix
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Technical
verb
In music, to turn a melody or chord upside down, so that the lowest note becomes the highest and vice versa.
He chose to invert the chord progression in the second verse.
Often appears as...
- invert a chord
- invert a melody
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Technical
verb
In electronics, to reverse the phase of an electrical signal.
The circuit is designed to invert the input signal.
Often appears as...
- invert a signal
- invert a waveform
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To turn something upside down or change the order of two things.
They inverted the picture to make it look correct.
Often appears as...
- invert the order
- invert the image
verb
In mathematics, to find the inverse of a function or an element.
When you invert a fraction, the numerator and the denominator are swapped.
Often appears as...
- invert a fraction
- invert a matrix
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In music, to turn a melody or chord upside down, so that the lowest note becomes the highest and vice versa.
He chose to invert the chord progression in the second verse.
Often appears as...
- invert a chord
- invert a melody
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In electronics, to reverse the phase of an electrical signal.
The circuit is designed to invert the input signal.
Often appears as...
- invert a signal
- invert a waveform
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Change
Use 'invert' to express a visual reversal, making what's typically at the top go to the bottom.
When you tip over the hourglass, you invert the sands.
Pro Tip 2/2Sequence Reversal
To 'invert' can mean reversing the order of steps or items in a process or list.
She decided to invert the checklist to prioritize the last items.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Change
Use 'invert' to express a visual reversal, making what's typically at the top go to the bottom.
When you tip over the hourglass, you invert the sands.
Pro Tip 2/2Sequence Reversal
To 'invert' can mean reversing the order of steps or items in a process or list.
She decided to invert the checklist to prioritize the last items.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Change
Use 'invert' to express a visual reversal, making what's typically at the top go to the bottom.
When you tip over the hourglass, you invert the sands.
Pro Tip 2/2Sequence Reversal
To 'invert' can mean reversing the order of steps or items in a process or list.
She decided to invert the checklist to prioritize the last items.
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Relax With BBC Earth PIPE...
just the most extraordinary things, they're not much bigger than a large hornet, really. And for a long time, scientists thought their wings worked in a very similar way to insects with the sort of figure of eight pattern. So they get lift on the downstroke like a normal bird and the upstroke, because they can invert their wings and move them backwards.
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Let's crowdsource the...
and democracy were citizens on the edge of the network helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague get the stuff up at the top really delivers to people at a grassroots level and inverts that pyramid this openness this forcing
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How to Walk on Your...
generating just enough angular momentum to stay balanced upside down. His arms must be strong enough to support his weight. Being upside down can be disorienting as the vestibular system located in the inner ear sends signals to the brain telling him he's inverted,
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Storytelling can be...
inverted perverse funhouse mirror she is also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how
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Susan Blackmore: Memes...
has potentially spread germs from place to place. So, think of it this way. Imagine a world full of brains and far more memes than can possibly find homes. The memes are all trying to get copied -- trying, in inverted commas -- i.e.,
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Social Services Are...
inverts this logic. What it says is, the more people, the more relationships, the stronger the solution. So I want to tell you my third and final story, which is about unemployment. In Britain, as in most places in the world,
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Tomás Saraceno: Would...
As the sun rose up above the horizon, we rose up, too, silently, slowly, with no explosions. We felt as if gravity had been inverted; it wasn't pulling us toward the center of the earth, but toward the universe.
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The Secret Culture of...
and then when clearly i'm not going to do that she just very gently bends over kind of almost inverts her body vertically and picks the ray up and then slowly just raises her head and now she's you know
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Shark Awareness Day PIPE...
what we find in these remote places around the world is that apex predators really dominate and drive the function of the whole ecosystem in pristine places we have an inverted
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The Dangers of Kite...
Watch out for my post turn. And then there's this. The roll. An airborne inverted spin. Nice work. See you next time. That was an advanced version of a role.
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Relax With BBC Earth PIPE...
just the most extraordinary things, they're not much bigger than a large hornet, really. And for a long time, scientists thought their wings worked in a very similar way to insects with the sort of figure of eight pattern. So they get lift on the downstroke like a normal bird and the upstroke, because they can invert their wings and move them backwards.
Video examples
Let's crowdsource the...
and democracy were citizens on the edge of the network helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague get the stuff up at the top really delivers to people at a grassroots level and inverts that pyramid this openness this forcing
Video examples
How to Walk on Your...
generating just enough angular momentum to stay balanced upside down. His arms must be strong enough to support his weight. Being upside down can be disorienting as the vestibular system located in the inner ear sends signals to the brain telling him he's inverted,
Video examples
Storytelling can be...
inverted perverse funhouse mirror she is also a storyteller she weaves powerful narratives except instead of doing it to show the truth to actually help make the world a better place she does it to deceive people I mean think about how
Video examples
Susan Blackmore: Memes...
has potentially spread germs from place to place. So, think of it this way. Imagine a world full of brains and far more memes than can possibly find homes. The memes are all trying to get copied -- trying, in inverted commas -- i.e.,
Video examples
Social Services Are...
inverts this logic. What it says is, the more people, the more relationships, the stronger the solution. So I want to tell you my third and final story, which is about unemployment. In Britain, as in most places in the world,
Video examples
Tomás Saraceno: Would...
As the sun rose up above the horizon, we rose up, too, silently, slowly, with no explosions. We felt as if gravity had been inverted; it wasn't pulling us toward the center of the earth, but toward the universe.
Video examples
The Secret Culture of...
and then when clearly i'm not going to do that she just very gently bends over kind of almost inverts her body vertically and picks the ray up and then slowly just raises her head and now she's you know
Video examples
Shark Awareness Day PIPE...
what we find in these remote places around the world is that apex predators really dominate and drive the function of the whole ecosystem in pristine places we have an inverted
Video examples
The Dangers of Kite...
Watch out for my post turn. And then there's this. The roll. An airborne inverted spin. Nice work. See you next time. That was an advanced version of a role.
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Andrew Luck
American Athlete
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
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Jimmy Graham
American Athlete
I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.
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Evangelista Torricelli
Italian Scientist
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
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Alan Kay
American Scientist
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
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Sue Perkins
English Comedian
I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.
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Kathy Burke
English Actress
In fact, I didn't realize I was 'unattractive' - in inverted commas - until I started acting. It was, 'Oh no, you're not right for the part - we're looking for a pretty girl.
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Christopher Wylie
Canadian Businessman
The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.
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Scotty Lago
American Athlete
Any time you are inverting yourself three times in a single air trick, you have to be cautious to execute properly and avoid injury.
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Hannah Teter
American Athlete
I'm trying to do more inverts and corked-out rotations that you don't see at the girls' level. I want to be more creative.
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Bruce Jackson
Public Servant
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Andrew Luck
American Athlete
I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
Quote examples
Jimmy Graham
American Athlete
I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.
Quote examples
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian Scientist
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
Quote examples
Alan Kay
American Scientist
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
Quote examples
Sue Perkins
English Comedian
I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.
Quote examples
Kathy Burke
English Actress
In fact, I didn't realize I was 'unattractive' - in inverted commas - until I started acting. It was, 'Oh no, you're not right for the part - we're looking for a pretty girl.
Quote examples
Christopher Wylie
Canadian Businessman
The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.
Quote examples
Scotty Lago
American Athlete
Any time you are inverting yourself three times in a single air trick, you have to be cautious to execute properly and avoid injury.
Quote examples
Hannah Teter
American Athlete
I'm trying to do more inverts and corked-out rotations that you don't see at the girls' level. I want to be more creative.
Quote examples
Bruce Jackson
Public Servant
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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