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What does invertible mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word invertible? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Capable of being inverted or turned.
  2. (mathematics) Able to be inverted, having an inverse.
  3. (chemistry) Capable of being changed or converted.
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What follows is not a strict fugue, but a fugato in five-part invertible counterpoint.
The idea haunted him like the invertible companions of Orestes.
In 1911 he established his theorems on the invariance of the dimension of a manifold under continuous invertible transformations.
He spent about a year of rigorous self-study fooling around with canons, fugues, invertible counterpoint, and so on.
But because cryptographic functions must be invertible, must be fast to compute, and should have small key size and memory requirements, linear functions are irresistible.
Projective transformations, which are invertible linear changes of homogeneous coordinates, are given by matrix multiplication.

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