单词 | inverse |
释义 | inverse inverse /; AmE / adjective [only before noun]
opposite in amount or position to another thing: There is an inverse relationship between shares and the dollar (= the value of one goes up as the value of the other goes down).
inversely /; AmE / adverb: The gold price often moves inversely to the dollar. E-business knowledge is inversely proportional to age and height in the organization.
IDIOMS
in inverse proportion to if one thing is in inverse proportion to another, the more of one thing there is, the less there is of the other: The attractiveness of a city tends to be in inverse proportion to its economic productivity. The size of demand is in inverse proportion to the price (= if one is high the other is low and if one is low the other is high). |
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