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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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The cryptographic problem is that the combining operation used to determine successive states in the sequence is linear and hence easily invertible, even though the sequence can be 2n − 1 bits in length before repeating.
The eye-peduncles are peculiar in being invertible in the same manner that a kid glove finger is pulled inside out.
The idea haunted him like the invertible companions of Orestes.
What follows is not a strict fugue, but a fugato in five-part invertible counterpoint.
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.
It was Gardner who first showed me the invertible signatures designed by Scott Kim.

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