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Adjective inverted has 2 senses

inverted(s = adj.all) upside-down - being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"
inverted(a = adj.all) anatropous - (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk; Array

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inverted, a.

Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion. [1913 Webster]
Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval. [1913 Webster]

Inverted arch (Arch.), an arch placed with crown downward; -- much used in foundations.

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inverted

arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized, chiastic, everted, gay, homoerotic, homophile, hyperbatic, inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, outside in, palindromic, queer, resupinate, retroverted, reversed, topsy-turvy, transposed, upside-down, wrong side out

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Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.

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