invert
nounUK /ˈɪn.vət/ · US /ˈɪn.vəɹt/
Etymology From Middle French invertir.
7 senses
- 1An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- 2The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be…
- 3The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- 4An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- 5A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater…
- 6A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
- 7Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of…
Architecture An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
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.
Civil engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
Civil engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Obsolete A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
- We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.1897, W. Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion, page 202:
Internet Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
Conspiracy theories
- Derived terms
- invert enzyme, Jenny invert