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Inversely   /ɪnvˈərsli/   Listen
Inversely

adverb
1.
In an inverse or contrary manner.  Synonym: reciprocally.  "Wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"






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"Inversely" Quotes from Famous Books



... has its transmission favoured in the better conductor, and the stronger current which tends to form in the latter has its intensity diminished by the obstruction of the former; and the forces of generation and obstruction are so perfectly neutralize each other exactly. Now as the obstruction is inversely as the balanced as to conducting power, the tendency to generate a current must be directly as that power to ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday

... of metaphysic fancy, but the result of a determination to end the malignant wrong of centuries. A power that knew no responsibility, war and intolerance that derived only from the accidental caprice of the court, arrest that bore no relation to offence, taxation inversely proportionate to the ability to pay, these were the prescriptive privileges that Burke invited his generation to accept as part of the accumulated wisdom of the past. It is not difficult to see why ...
— Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham • Harold J. Laski

... in the public mind from LYDIA THOMPSON. Her successes have varied inversely as the length of her trunk-hose. She has built up her reputation by "break-downs," and has clutched the burlesque diadem with, innumerable bounds of her elastic legs. Now, however, she has grown weary of offering up her fatted calves at the shrine of a prodigal New-York ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 • Various

... famous. The seeds of divine doctrine fell into a soil prepared for them in the old dragoon, into whom the Devil had glided. Indeed, if there is a phenomenon well attested by experience, is it not the spiritual phenomenon commonly called "the faith of the peasant"? The strength of belief varies inversely with the amount of use that a man has made of his reasoning faculties. Simple people and soldiers belong to the unreasoning class. Those who have marched through life beneath the banner of instinct are far more ready to receive the light than ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne



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