inverse
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Investors and CEOs go on TV all the time to tout stocks—the inverse of flopping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
The portfolio is weighted based on the inverse of each stock’s price volatility, according to the fund’s prospectus.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Before that, the stock broke above a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pivot at $90 on Oct.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
For a few top teams, there actually appears to be an inverse relationship between the most successful teams and how much their players are paid.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
In the following exercises, determine whether or not the given functions are inverses.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
We have found inverses of function defined by ordered pairs and from a graph.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
We can solve exponential equations with base by applying the natural logarithm of both sides because exponential and logarithmic functions are inverses of each other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
For the following exercises, use a calculator to solve the system of equations with matrix 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 Massee, George
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