Usually means: Opposite in relation or effect.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word inverse:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. inverse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inverse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inverse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inverse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inverse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inverse, inverse: Wordnik
  7. inverse, the inverse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inverse: Wiktionary
  9. inverse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inverse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inverse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inverse: Dictionary.com
  13. inverse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inverse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inverse (functions), Inverse (logic), Inverse (mathematics), Inverse (website): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Inverse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. inverse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. inverse: Rhymezone
  19. Inverse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. inverse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. inverse: Free Dictionary
  22. inverse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inverse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Inverse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inverse: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inverse: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Inverse (function), Inverse (functions), Inverse (ring theory), inverse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. inverse: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Inverse: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. inverse: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. inverse, inverse, inverse, inverse, inverse, inverse, inverse, inverse: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. inverse: UNCChem Glossary
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See inverses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Opposite in effect, nature or order.
adjective:  Reverse, opposite in order.
adjective:  (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
adjective:  (mathematics) 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.
adjective:  (geometry) 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.
adjective:  (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
noun:  An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards.
noun:  The result of an inversion, particularly:
noun:  The reverse of any procedure or process.
noun:  (mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
noun:  (geometry) The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
noun:  (logic) The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
noun:  (mathematics) 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:
noun:  (addition) The negative of a given number.
noun:  (multiplication) One divided by a given number.
noun:  (functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
noun:  (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
noun:  (card games) 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.
noun:  (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
verb:  (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

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