Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a reverse position, direction, or order.
  • On the other hand; on the contrary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a reverse manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an opposite way; so as to be reversed

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Examples

  • The orbital angular momentum varies from - 0. 1·10, or reversely, which is more than a forty-fold increase or decrease (Landscheidt, 1988).

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • Indeed, Howard Temin and Mizutani, and independently David Baltimore, discovered in 1970 a specific enzyme associated with Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), the reverse transcriptase (RT), capable of reversely transcribing the viral RNA into DNA.

    Luc Montagnier - Autobiography 2009

  • Especially the front rooms, facing south and a hill in other words, they never get any sunlight, for your reversely-oriented northern hemisphere people.

    updatery mikandra 2010

  • Especially the front rooms, facing south and a hill in other words, they never get any sunlight, for your reversely-oriented northern hemisphere people.

    mikandra: updatery mikandra 2010

  • However, Barnett does not exclude the possibility either, that reversely, part of the 'functioning core' may decay and come to form part of the 'gap'.

    Fourth Generation Warfare: The new Military Concept for Twisting our minds into total submission 2009

  • And, of course, this bill puts the issue precisely reversely.

    CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2007 2007

  • Yet churches can endorse ballot measures or reversely urge their congregants to oppose measures.

    The Rev. Chuck Currie: 2004

  • Yet churches can endorse ballot measures or reversely urge their congregants to oppose measures.

    Our Faith, Our Vote 2004

  • Yet churches can endorse ballot measures or reversely urge their congregants to oppose measures.

    Our Faith, Our Vote 2004

  • And reversely, what would you NOT want to be asked?

    QUESTIONS? reudaly 2004

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