Dictionary Entry
inverse
inverse is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
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- 1adjective
Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.
- 2adjective
Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
- 3adjective
Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x.
- 4noun
That which is inverse.
- 5noun
something inverted in sequence or character or effect
"when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"
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- 6adjective
reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
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- 7adjective
opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
"a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)"
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