Invert vs Inverse - What's the difference?
invert | inverse |
To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
* Shakespeare
* Cowper
(music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
(chemistry) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
(archaic) A homosexual man.
(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. invert (in'?vert) The floor or bottom of the internal cross section of a closed conduit, such as an aqueduct, tunnel, or drain - The term originally referred to the inverted arch used to form the bottom of a masonry?lined sewer or tunnel (Jackson, 1997) Wilson, W.E., Moore, J.E., (2003) Glossary of Hydrology, Berlin: Springer
(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
English heteronyms
Opposite in effect or nature or order
reverse, opposite in order
(botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
(mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
(linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
(category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
The opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.
:: ''Deposing is the inverse of installing, and vice versa
The reverse version of a procedure.
(mathematics) The inverse of an element x'' with respect to a binary operation is an element that when combined with ''x yields the appropriate identity element.
(logic) A statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p ? ~q is the inverse of p ? q.
(surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.
As verbs the difference between invert and inverse
is that invert is to turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction while inverse is to compute the bearing and distance between two points.As nouns the difference between invert and inverse
is that invert is a homosexual man while inverse is the opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.As adjectives the difference between invert and inverse
is that invert is subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted while inverse is opposite in effect or nature or order.invert
English
Verb
(en verb)- to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
- That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
- Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper base to stand upon.
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Derived terms
* invert sugar * inverted * invertibleSee also
* convertNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- invert sugar
References
inverse
English
Adjective
(-)- Multiplication is the inverse operation to division.
Derived terms
* inverse function * inverselyNoun
(en noun)- Removing one's shoes is the inverse of putting one's shoes on
- The additive inverse of x is -x as, x + -x = 0 where 0 is the additive identity element.
- The multiplicative inverse of x is x-1 as, x * x-1 = 1 where 1 is the multiplicative identity element.
- ''The compositional inverse of a function f is f–1 as, f f–1 is the identity function (ie f–1(f(a)) = a for all a).
