Word Finder - inverting

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To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

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to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

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To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

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To undergo inversion, as sugar.

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To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

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To turn (the foot) inwards.

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The act of something being inverted; an inversion.

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That inverts.

It is usual to write this as a fraction, inverting the order of the factors in the numerator.

A cell when filled with fresh slices becomes the head of the battery, and where skilled scientific control can be relied upon to regulate the process, the best and most economical way of heating the slices, previous to admitting the hot liquor from the next cell, is by direct steam; but as the slightest inattention or carelessness in the admission of direct steam might have the effect of inverting sugar and thereby causing the loss of some portion of saccharine in the slices, water heaters are generally used, through which water is passed and heated up previous to admission to the freshly-filled cell.

This operation, performed in the garden by means of the spade, is carried on in the field on a larger scale by the plough,' which breaks the soil and by inverting the furrow-slice, exposes fresh surfaces to the disintegrating influence of air, rain and frost.

All these types of plough are virtually hoes pulled through the ground, breaking but not inverting the soil.

Magnaghi introduced a convenient method of inverting the thermometer by means of a propeller actuated on beginning to heave in the line, and this form is used for all work at great depths.

Disadvantages of earlier patterns were, the telescope was inverting, the drum was not graduated in yards, and drift not allowed for.

It may be obtained crystallized in the quadratic system by melting in a sealed tube containing hydrogen, allowed to cool partially, and then pouring off the still liquid portion by inverting the tube.

It may be obtained crystallized in quadratic octahedra of a greenish-blue colour, by melting in a sealed tube containing an inert gas, and inverting the tube when the metal has partially solidified.

Here the charging machine lifts one box at a time from its car, pushes it through the momentarily opened furnace door, and empties the metal upon the hearth of the furnace by inverting the box, which it then replaces on its car.

The inverting telescope, composed of two, convex lenses, was a later invention; still it is not impossible that the original experiment was made with two convex lenses.

Then, by inverting the series, the longitude was expressed in terms of the time.

Cherubin, whose in strument consisted of two inverting systems, and consequently gave a totally wrong impression of depth, i.e.

Abstract We derive a method for inverting emission-line profiles formed in supernova ejecta.

Inverting papillomas arising from the sphenoid sinus are exceedingly rare.

These catalytic fixed bed reactors are operated by periodically inverting the flow direction.

Hempel pointed out that the efficiency would be increased by inverting this arrangement, since water vapour is lighter than air and consequently rises.

These include adding two matrices together, multiplying two matrices, transposing a matrix and inverting a matrix.

Code effects range from infinite lives or health to drastically changing gameplay by inverting gravity or changing the physics of certain stages.

Cool cakes for ten minutes before inverting them onto a plate.