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Meanings of inverse proportion in английском

A relationship between two variables of the form y=c/x.

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        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.
        Lone Wolf
        1
        Is not the motion of a body swift in a reciprocal proportion to the time it takes up in describing any given space?
        Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce...
        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.
        The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
        3
        In the next two Classes, not only the number of stamens are to be observed, but the reciprocal proportions in respect to height.
        The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
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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.
        The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
        Usage of inverse proportion in английском
        1
        Enjoyment of the occasion was in inverse proportion to the advance hype.
        The Irish Times
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        Their powerful materiel is in inverse proportion to the potential of German infantry.
        A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
        3
        Air temperatures were plummeting in inverse proportion to the temperature of the negotiations.
        The Irish Times
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        Gorham, the eyes are developed, as a rule, in inverse proportion to the luminosity.
        Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) / Wonders of Earth, Sea ...
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        The demand for absolute truth is in inverse proportion to the possibility of providing it.
        The Tyranny Of Words
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        A man's sense of humor seems to be in inverse proportion to the gravity of his profession.
        The Circular Staircase
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        But, strangely, the degree of panic seemed to be in inverse proportion to proximity to the reactors.
        The Guardian
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        Or has he a definition of his own for geometrical progression, as well as for inverse proportion?
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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        There have been very few interviews and reviews: his public profile is in inverse proportion to his popularity.
        The Guardian
        10
        It seemed that the energy and acrimony expended were in inverse proportion to the importance of the office.
        Teaching the pig to dance: a memoir
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        That too, he explained, was a law of nature: "Reproduction is in inverse proportion to individuation."
        Herland
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        Sexual fantasies of dominance and submission, to take another example, are common to both sexes in inverse proportion.
        The Disposable Male
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        He proposes to prove that the fecundity of marriages varies in inverse proportion to the density of the population.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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        Though the number of children has conspicuously decreased, the care and attention given them has increased in inverse proportion.
        The Nervous Housewife
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        There is another aspect of this inverse proportion between age and sociability-theway in which it conduces to education.
        The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
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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.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
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