inverse proportion
These public contributions would vary inversely with income.
Prices are inversely related to crop size: for every 1 percent increase in crop size, the industry can expect a 1 percent decrease in price.
Inversely, the cloud cover helped to keep overnight temperatures up.

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inversely | Business English

inversely
adverb
uk /ɪnˈvɜːsli/us
in the opposite way to something else:
inversely proportional/related to sthEfficiency was found to be inversely related to company size.
move/vary inversely to sthBond yields move inversely to market price.

Examples of inversely

inversely
The authors motivate their numerical results with symbolic calculations, defining a replication probability that is inversely proportional to plasmid concentration.
More specifically, the number of slips during lexical access, verb formation and phonological encoding is inversely related to learners' proficiency level.
In both instances, what is normally taken to be evidence of good policy may be inversely, or simply not, related to good outcomes.
Moreover, the rate of melt expulsion is inversely related to the fraction of crystals in the melt and to the melt's viscosity.
Subjects are asked to predict prices and their earnings are inversely related to their quadratic forecasting errors.
The frustration experienced by professionals in these cases may be inversely proportional to the frequency with which they occur.
Inversely, iconic representations do not always need a legend as the relations between sound and graphical forms are much more intuitive.
To a certain extent, biomass production is directly related, and the sporulation frequency and number of sporocarps are inversely related to applied phosphorus.
Under ideal conditions, the amplification is inversely proportional to the square of the liner radius.
A trans-acting regulatory gene that inversely affects the expression of the white, brown and scarlet loci.
Until 1999, the allowances were inversely related to income, with four rates of benefit corresponding to an equal number of income brackets.
Some of the variables in the model were highly coupled or inversely related to other variables.
Due to the different sampling probabilities (for different age groups), relative weights inversely proportional to the sampling fraction were used.
Indeed, failure, non-completion, financial hardship and high levels of debt are inversely related to both social class and the risks involved.
More importantly, however, this variable is inversely related to presidential removals.
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