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(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual. / (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *

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invert

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɪnˈvɜːt/

Noun

obsolete

(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual. / (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *

Japanese Meaning

（心理学、既時的な用語として）同性愛者 / （建築用語として）逆アーチ（排水溝などに見られる構造）」

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In older psychoanalytic case notes, clinicians sometimes labeled a patient as an invert.

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古い精神分析の症例記録では、臨床医が患者を同性愛者と記すことがありました。

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(obsolete, psychology) A homosexual.

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.

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(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *

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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.

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(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.

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(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

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inverts

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