I. adjective
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an inverse relationship technical (= so that when one is great, the other is small )
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We concluded that there will be an inverse relationship between the market price of the bond and its true yield.
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■ NOUN
correlation
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By implication it is impossible to postulate any definite inverse correlation between changes in the real wage rate and changes in employment.
proportion
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The scope of personal responsibility expands and contracts in inverse proportion to the extent of the protected interests.
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When this is not the case, benefit allocations are in inverse proportion to A's and B's.
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The stridency of their assertions tended to grow in inverse proportion to the extent of their knowledge on costs.
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The proliferation of these diminutive shows will soon be in inverse proportion to the theatres still open to receive them.
relation
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Introduction An inverse relation between socioeconomic status and mortality has been documented in many studies, nomatterhow socioeconomic status has been measured.
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In contrast to a previous report, we found no significant inverse relations between birth weight and blood pressure.
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The studies have been extended to show the same inverse relation between birth weight and glucose tolerance in young men aged 18-25.
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Results - A strong inverse relation between grade of employment and sickness absence was evident.
relationship
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Usually there is an inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rate movements in the economy.
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In short, there is a negative or inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.
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The close inverse relationship between insulin and IGFBP-1 is well recognised in normal and diabetic children.
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Economists have labeled this inverse relationship the law of demand.
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Thus, there is also an inverse relationship between the rate of inflation and the real demand for money.
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The inverse relationship between living costs and childbearing is found throughout the developing world.
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This confirms the well observed inverse relationship between disability and social contact.
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Not surprisingly an inverse relationship existed between the proportion of labourers and that of lower professionals.
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An inverse method for the calculation of stability boundaries is also discussed.
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By implication it is impossible to postulate any definite inverse correlation between changes in the real wage rate and changes in employment.
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In short, there is a negative or inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.
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The inverse relationship between living costs and childbearing is found throughout the developing world.
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The face was in inverse relief, with the features concave rather than convex, as for a mold.
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The temperature at which an inverse solubility occurs is often termed cloud point.
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This volume property is characteristic of the inverse square law; it holds for no other law of force.
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Thus, there is also an inverse relationship between the rate of inflation and the real demand for money.
II. noun
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The inverse is also true.
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A4 asserts each integer has an additive inverse .
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If anything, this was the inverse of a restaurant.
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It is the inverse of the liquidity ratio. 4.
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One of the more subtle failures is to confuse a block diagram with its inverse .
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The concentration of buffering substances in a solution is expressed in terms of alkalinity, the inverse of acidity.
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The monuments that were created around this war, however, were largely the inverse of traditional monuments.
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This circle self-inverts; that is, its inverse is the same circle.
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Yes, this is the inverse of what is known as the mutation rate, and it can be measured.