- reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- 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).
- of or relating to an inverse function.
- inverted; turned upside down.
- an inverted state or condition.
- something that is inverse; the direct opposite.
- Mathematics.
- an 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.
- inverse function.
- a 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.
- the set of such inverses of the points of a given set, as the points on a curve.
- to invert.
- opposite or contrary in effect, sequence, direction, etc
- maths
- (of a relationship) containing two variables such that an increase in one results in a decrease in the other
- (of an element) operating on a specified member of a set to produce the identity of the set: the additive inverse element of x is –x, the multiplicative inverse element of x is 1/x
- upside-down; inverted
- maths
- another name for reciprocal (def. 7)
- an inverse element
- a categorial proposition derived from another by changing both the proposition and its subject from affirmative to negative, or vice versa, as all immortals are angels from no mortals are angels
