inverse
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Newton originally developed the inverse square relation to describe motion within the Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
One study, “Seasonal Asset Allocation: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows,” found a strong inverse correlation between the stock market and SAD.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Barkin said the inverse pattern—consumer prices rising without underlying cost pressures—would worry him more because it would show firms had meaningfully regained pricing power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It is the inverse of China’s “Great Firewall,” a sprawling regulatory and technological system that has stifled foreign competition and restricted the Chinese public’s access to information for more than two decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, as though in inverse ratio to the vanishing voice, the invoked ghost of the man whom she could neither forgive nor revenge herself upon began to assume a quality almost of solidity, permanence.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
The following key terms will be important to our understanding of functions and their inverses.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We have found inverses of function defined by ordered pairs and from a graph.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
We will now practice using the properties of identities, inverses, and zero to simplify expressions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
For functions whose derivatives we already know, we can use this relationship to find derivatives of inverses without having to use the limit definition of the derivative.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
We can also use a calculator to solve a system of equations with matrix inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
He told Aaron to wear No. 2 and Andrew to wear No. 5 thinking, somewhat fancifully, that the inversed numbers might confuse opponents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2014
Words by Alex Klein Photography by Mike O'Meally and Skin Phillips Australia: land of inversed summers, succulent skateparks, glorious beaches, and beautiful women.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. convex, exp. and inversed, striate, brown then grey; g. adnato-decur. veined, branched, distant, white or glaucous; s. 3-5 cm. fistulose, glabrous, thickened upwards; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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