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Määritelmät

Verbit

1. (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
2. (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
3. (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
4. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

Substantiivit

1. (archaic) A homosexual man.
2. (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
3. The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
4. (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
5. (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

Adjektiivit

1. (chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.