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Half turned round; half inverted; (Crystallog.) having a twinned structure.

ibution of water in the cylinders of hydraulic elevators, cranes, etc. (b) (Gas Works) An inverted cup with a partition dipping into water, for opening or closing communication between two gas mains, the open ends of which protrude about the water.

Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.

A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

Capable of being inverted or turned.

mmon to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface…

A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

e mind. This shows what is meant by realitas objectiva in Descartes. Kant and Fichte have inverted the meanings. Subject, with them, is the mind which knows; object, that which is known; subjective, the varying conditions of the knowing mind; objective, that which is in the constant nature of the thing known. Trendelen…

A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants. [Written also pelicoid.] Math. Dict.

al tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; --called also the inverted mordente.

Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. [Obs.] The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward.

the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc. Quotation marks (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.

of 4; 1/(a + b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.

A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. [Obs.] E. Darwin.