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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•verse•ly (in vûrs′lē),USA pronunciation adv. - in an inverse manner.
- Mathematicsin inverse proportion.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•verse /ɪnˈvɜrs, ˈɪnvɜrs/USA pronunciation adj. - reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency;
opposite:Read the numbers in inverse order. - (of a proportion) having two terms of which one increases as the other decreases.
n. [uncountable] - something that is the direct opposite:The outcome was the inverse of what was supposed to happen.
in•verse•ly, adv. See -vert-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•verse (adj., n. in vûrs′, in′vûrs;v. in vûrs′),USA pronunciation adj., n., v., -versed, -vers•ing. adj. - reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
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- Mathematics(of a proportion) containing terms of which an increase in one results in a decrease in another. A term is said to be in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases).
- Mathematicsof or pertaining to an inverse function. Cf. direct (def. 16).
- inverted;
turned upside down.
n. - an inverted state or condition.
- something that is inverse;
the direct opposite. - Mathematics
- Mathematicsan element of an algebraic system, as a group, corresponding to a given element such that its product or sum with the given element is the identity element.
- See inverse function.
- Mathematicsa point related to a given point so that it is situated on the same radius, extended if necessary, of a given circle or sphere and so that the product of the distances of the two points from the center equals the square of the radius of the circle or sphere.
- Mathematicsthe set of such inverses of the points of a given set, as the points on a curve.
v.t. - to invert.
- Latin inversus, past participle of invertere to turn upside down or inside out, reverse. See in-2, verse
- 1605–15
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