Paul Di Filippo

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.

American Writer

Whitney Wolfe Herd

When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.

American Businesswoman

Alan Kay

In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.

American Scientist

Gilles Deleuze

An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.

Joey Votto

I don't perceive a lot of the things that a lot of people perceive as negative as a negative - and the inverse, I don't think a lot of the things people think are positive are positive, necessarily.

Canadian Baseball Player

Kenneth Lonergan

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

American Playwright

Aldous Huxley

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

English Novelist

Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

British Philosopher

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Canadian Businessman

Liz Vassey

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

American Actress

Often used in discussions contrasting two extremes or outcomes.

Figurative Use

In everyday language, 'inverse' shouldn't be confused with math-specific terms.

Non-Mathematical

'Inverse' is often used to describe a kind of relationship where one thing decreases when another increases.

Common Relationships

When used as an adjective, 'inverse' can describe an effect that is contrary to what was expected or intended.

Cause and Effect

Use 'inverse' to talk about flips in direction or positional changes in physical and abstract spaces.

Physical Spaces

In math, 'inverse' has a precise meaning often connected to operations or functions that undo each other.

Strict Mathematics

The mathematical inverse involves division by a number, especially in ratios and fractions.

Reciprocal Nuance

In computing, 'inverse' can imply reversing a process to get back to the original state.

Computing Context

Understand that in technical terms, 'inverse' might involve complex operations, not just simple opposites.

Technical Reversal

 you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart, they don't love you anymore, and all of a sudden, you're desperate for making sense out of this life, and, "Has anybody ever felt this bad before? How did they come out of this cloud?" Or the inverse -- something great. You meet somebody and your heart explodes.

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 of what happens on the inverse, we tested for 21 heavy metals, this was one of the, just the higher ranges. The yellow line is the safety line for human interactions, of course, I was standing knee deep in the river that is just laden with zinc, just one of the many heavy metals it was high.

Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...

 In an oscillating system, the frequency is how many back and forth movement cycles occur within a second. This is the inverse of the period, which is how many seconds it takes to complete one cycle. And a building's natural frequency, determined by its mass and stiffness,

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 you feel almost as though your feet might flash off from the ground and your fall upwards it's a kind of inverse vertigo it's a very wonderful and strange feeling extraordinary and it reminds me of why for as long as human culture has been recording itself it's

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 we do our exploring we come back we recompress for five minutes and then we can enter the habitat again around the corner is maybe the second most important feature to the have after the power system i'm our toilet inverse without water no flushing and then one

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 The problem is with this operator. So, division -- we've used division because it's the inverse to multiplication, but as I've just said, the multiplication is a bit of a lie here. This is a very, very complicated, very non-linear operation;

How computers are...

 Secondly, I think often we are drawn towards characters and protagonists who are likable and human. And this makes sense, of course, right? Because if you like someone, then you care about them. But the inverse is also true.

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 shares the same facts -- not whether those facts are truthful or not, but are we sharing the same facts as we converse? The third is How much of the conversation is receptive or civil or the inverse, toxic?

How Twitter needs to...

 we still get that element. So for both turning the square and adding integers, our identity here is zero, not very exciting. Axiom every group element has an element called its inverse also in the group.

Group theory 101: How to...

 that the volume of a gas is inversely related to pressure. So, any air-filled spaces, like a rockfish's swim bladder, or human lungs, will compress as they descend deeper and expand as they ascend.

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