inversely
inverse
noun[ S ]
 formaluk /ɪnˈvɜːs/ us /ɪnˈvɝːs/
 the inverse
the opposite: 相反；反面；对立面；相反事物
Dividing by two is the inverse of multiplying by two.除以2与乘以2正好相反。

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anything
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inverse | American Dictionary

inverse
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪnˈvɜrs, ˈɪn·vɜrs/
changing in an opposite direction in relation to something else, esp. an amount:
in inverse proportion
an inverse relationship

inversely

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ɪnˈvɜrs·li, ˈɪnˌvɜrs-/
By and large, your ability to cope with change varies inversely with age.

inverse | Business English

inverse
adjective[ only before noun ]
uk /ɪnˈvɜːs/us
changing in the opposite way in relation to something else, especially an amount:
an inverse relationship between sth and sthThere is an inverse relationship between interest rates and bond prices.
in inverse proportion to sthThe amount of business activity is in inverse proportion to the amount of government control.
inverse
noun[ S ]
 formaluk /ɪnˈvɜːs/us
the opposite:
the inverse of sthThe current crisis is the exact inverse of the boom we experienced a few years ago.
The Earnings/Price ratio is the inverse of the Price/Earnings ratio.

Examples of inverse

inverse
Then f is monotone with tree-like point inverses.
Section 2 contains the problem statement, as well as the outline of the approach used for constructing the transforms and their inverses.
The shortest way to define groupoid is to say it means a small category with inverses.
Ergodic transformations conjugate to their inverses by involutions.
Rapid method to compute inverses of additive-by-additive relationship matrices including sire-dam combination effects.
One is based on purely algebraic techniques, like incomplete factorizations, sparse approximate inverses, and algebraic multilevel methods.
The two functions are total and each other's inverses, which makes the types isomorphic.
Unfortunately, many operations that we would like to define with catamorphisms require inverses that do not exist or are expensive to compute.
Two downfunctors are defined next, as suitable weak inverses for - and [-].
The maps and are mutual inverses of each other.
To be precise, there are classes that cannot be handled with these methods, while their inverses can be handled easily.
As an application, we get a better understanding on the structure of inverses of elliptic pseudodifferential operators on classes of non-compact manifolds.
The two estimates being independent, they were pooled using inverses of the sampling variances as weights.
In both cases, since the quantities go to negative infinity at the sink, their negative inverses are plotted as functions of the distance of the tip from the sink yt.
In order to make enumeration schemes more closely resemble generating trees and the insertion encoding, we consider a symmetry of his approach, replacing permutations by their inverses.
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