inverse
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“Brand new chanel$” is poised to be a song off of a potential upcoming project, which is expected to be an inverse, “brother album” to “Worst Girl in America.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Although such total goose eggs are rare, an inverse 3X fund that sought to triple the opposite of the daily return of Moderna stock went to zero last month on the London Stock Exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
But even if you acknowledge the upside, you must accept the inverse is true, too.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
This outward force would balance the force of the Earth’s gravity if gravity fell off in accordance with an inverse square law, but Newton did not explicitly state this at the time.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
We call functions like this, inverses of one another.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We have found inverses of function defined by ordered pairs and from a graph.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 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
However, just as zero does not have a reciprocal, some functions do not have inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
TRY IT #1 Show that and are 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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