0 opposite in relation to something else:
Their generosity was in inverse proportion/relation to their income (= the more money they had the less generous they were).
1 the opposite:
Dividing by two is the inverse of multiplying by two.
2 changing in an opposite direction in relation to something else, esp. an amount:
in inverse proportion
an inverse relationship
3 changing in the opposite way in relation to something else, especially an amount:
an inverse relationship between sth and sth There is an inverse relationship between interest rates and bond prices.
in inverse proportion to sth The amount of business activity is in inverse proportion to the amount of government control.
4 the opposite:
The operators of linear dynamics often possess inverses and then form groups.
Theorem 8.1 suggests a hidden connection to preconditioning, if the local problems are solved by approximate inverses of the local submatrices.
We assume that pollution and environmental goods are inverses of each other.
By way of contradiction assume that there are points whose inverses are cyclic.
In the case of natural numbers and lists, this is established by the use of inverses to the constructors.
While the relation to lambda lifting is apparent, the authors only conjecture that lifting and dropping are inverses.
Analogous results are obtained for the inverses of the relevant maps.
The evolution equations that we now consider correspond to operators, often non-linear, that do not have inverses and so form semi-groups, not groups.
