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Meanings of inverse proportion in English
A relationship between two variables of the form y=c/x.
Synonyms
Examples for "inverse proportionality"
Examples for "inverse proportionality"
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital.
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Is not the motion of a body swift in a reciprocal proportion to the time it takes up in describing any given space?
2
The Classes are distinguished from each other in this ingenious system, by the number, situation, adhesion, or reciprocal proportion of the males in each flower.
3
In the next two Classes, not only the number of stamens are to be observed, but the reciprocal proportions in respect to height.
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In the next two Classes, not only the number of stamens are to be observed, but the reciprocal proportions in respect to height.
Usage of inverse proportion in English
1
Enjoyment of the occasion was in inverse proportion to the advance hype.
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Their powerful materiel is in inverse proportion to the potential of German infantry.
3
Air temperatures were plummeting in inverse proportion to the temperature of the negotiations.
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Gorham, the eyes are developed, as a rule, in inverse proportion to the luminosity.
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The demand for absolute truth is in inverse proportion to the possibility of providing it.
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A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the gravity of his profession.
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But, strangely, the degree of panic seemed to be in inverse proportion to proximity to the reactors.
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Or has he a definition of his own for geometrical progression, as well as for inverse proportion?
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There have been very few interviews and reviews: his public profile is in inverse proportion to his popularity.
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It seemed that the energy and acrimony expended were in inverse proportion to the importance of the office.
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That too, he explained, was a law of nature: "Reproduction is in inverse proportion to individuation."
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Sexual fantasies of dominance and submission, to take another example, are common to both sexes in inverse proportion.
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He proposes to prove that the fecundity of marriages varies in inverse proportion to the density of the population.
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Though the number of children has conspicuously decreased, the care and attention given them has increased in inverse proportion.
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There is another aspect of this inverse proportion between age and sociability-theway in which it conduces to education.
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The keenness of men's criticism of their neighbour's faults is in inverse proportion to their familiarity with their own.
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Inverse proportion through the time
Inverse proportion across language varieties
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