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
Gold futures, which often move in the inverse direction to the dollar, rose $16.80, or 0.4%, to $4380.40 a troy ounce, registering a modest gain for the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Investors may be overwhelmed by the recent surge in leveraged and inverse ETFs, which typically use derivatives to amplify daily gains on individual stocks as well as other assets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
This is illustrated in the accompanying chart, which shows the perfectly inverse correlation between trader size and the probability of profit — known as “edge.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Black birds pierce the sky like inverse stars.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
The following key terms will be important to our understanding of functions and their inverses.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
For the following exercises, use a calculator to solve the system of equations with matrix inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
In these cases, there may be more than one way to restrict the domain, leading to different inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
We can also use a calculator to solve a system of equations with matrix inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
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
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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