inverse
noun
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An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or inside out or backwards.
“321 is the inverse of 123.”
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The result of an inversion, particularly:
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A second element which negates a first; in a binary operation, the element for which the binary operation—when applied to both it and an initially given element—yields the operation's identity element, specifically:
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A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
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The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.
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(Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
verb
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To compute the bearing and distance between two points.
Antonyms
adjective
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Opposite in effect, nature or order.
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Reverse, opposite in order.
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Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
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Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
“Multiplication is the inverse operation to division.”
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That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion.
“A circle inversion maps a given generalized circle to its inverse generalized circle.”
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(of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
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