inverse
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Gold futures, which often move in the inverse direction to the dollar, rose $16.80, or 0.4%, to $4380.40 a troy ounce, registering a modest gain for the week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Leveraged ETFs and their siblings, inverse funds, are risky, and their frenzied proliferation that kicked into overdrive 2025 may be overshadowing their big jump in closures this year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The most dynamic category is inverse and leveraged products, now allowed for single stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Investors and CEOs go on TV all the time to tout stocks—the inverse of flopping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I was ignorant of the inverse square law for light propagation.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
TRY IT #2 Show that the following two matrices are inverses of each other.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
The following key terms will be important to our understanding of functions and their inverses.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We call functions like this, inverses of one another.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
We have found inverses of function defined by ordered pairs and from a graph.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
In the following exercises, determine whether or not the given functions are inverses.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
He told Aaron to wear No. 2 and Andrew to wear No. 5 thinking, somewhat fancifully, that the inversed numbers might confuse opponents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2014
Words by Alex Klein Photography by Mike O'Meally and Skin Phillips Australia: land of inversed summers, succulent skateparks, glorious beaches, and beautiful women.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. convex, exp. and inversed, striate, brown then grey; g. adnato-decur. veined, branched, distant, white or glaucous; s. 3-5 cm. fistulose, glabrous, thickened upwards; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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