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- noun Plural form of
inverse . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inverse .
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Examples
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In this case, look for "inverses" of the form 1/a for a, then show that for any a in the group (except zero), there exists an element 1/a, such that (a) *
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Thank You! for forumlating arguments (inverses and negatives etc. mumbo jumbo) on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
Plouffe: Republicans Will Attack Hillary Too, Remember? 2009
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"If I thought" is pretty similar in meaning to "I doubt"--they're not quite inverses, but they do express a very similar state of being in disbelief or suspicion. "you ever might countenance" becomes "you'll give… a fair hearing" philologize the hell out of it if you want, I don't think a reasonable person would find these fragments too dissimilar.
Whether true or not 2009
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I like how the two graphs are really inverses of each other.
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"[T] he film comes to feel like a vehicle designed to let Rock first vent about balls-and-chains and their slutty, harpy inverses, and then be absolved of such nasty attitudes by an unearned Hollywood ending which proves that marital lovemaking and bliss can be yours if you nag enough, refuse to ravage gorgeous women in stilettos, and avoid changing anything about your egocentric self," writes Nick Schager at Slant.
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In fact, they were psychological inverses of the present.
James Berman: Reports of the Death of Equities: Greatly Exaggerated 2009
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These two processes are inverses of one another, and show that the theory of Boolean algebras and of rings with identity in which every element is idempotent are definitionally equivalent.
The Mathematics of Boolean Algebra Monk, J. Donald 2009
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This probably explains a lot about the proportional relationships between the respective years of R presidents and D legislative majorities and their inverses.
"This is sounding more and more like the Republican convention of 1976." Ann Althouse 2008
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In terms of baby inverses, what I meant was that if you proposed baby universes as a way to generate a new universe out of a fluctuation, but made no mention of inflation, I think you would encounter an analogous (but I agree not identical) argument: how would a fluctuation possibly lead to a baby homogeneous universe?
Against Bounces Sean 2007
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Adjoint functors can be thought of as being conceptual inverses.
Category Theory Marquis, Jean-Pierre 2007
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