inverse
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That shift doesn’t alter the company’s overall earnings “yield,” or the inverse of its price-to-earnings ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Brand new chanel$” is poised to be a song off of a potential upcoming project, which is expected to be an inverse, “brother album” to “Worst Girl in America.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Short came to embody the inverse of that picture, the shaded gloom lurking in places that escape sunshiny illumination.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Newton originally developed the inverse square relation to describe motion within the Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
I was ignorant of the inverse square law for light propagation.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
We call functions like this, inverses of one another.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
For the following exercises, use a calculator to solve the system of equations with matrix inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
However, just as zero does not have a reciprocal, some functions do not have inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
TRY IT #1 Show that and are inverses.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
In this chapter, we will investigate matrices and their inverses, and various ways to use matrices to solve systems of equations.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
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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