inverse relation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinverseandrelation
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inverse
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪnˈvɜːs/us/ɪnˈvɝːs/
opposite in relation to ...
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relation
noun
uk/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition ofinverseandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although in many studies there has been an apparentinverserelationbetween education and fertility, there is no good explanation of this relationship.
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Aninverserelationbetween separation distance and utilisation, or the 'distance decay ' of usage, is universally observed.
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This is because the radius of convergence in a realization should typically have some sort ofinverserelationto velocity amplitude.
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Moreover, theinverserelationbetween maltreatment severity and emotional quality suggests that denial of negative information does not occur invariantly.
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We can now return to our linguistic example and see that the sameinverserelationholds.
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However, we have preferred here to consider theinverserelationand do not need to deal with labelled multi-graphs.
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A possibility is then to search for theinverserelationfrom settings and other features to the properties of the product, possibly including payoff.
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Only homonymous words showed aninverserelationbetween interpretation and naming accuracy.
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However, one can gain a simple intuition about the impliedinverserelationbetween the frequency and size of the innovations by looking at formula (13).
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Neonatal mortality showed aninverserelationwith mid-arm circumference.
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Thus, the expectedinverserelationfound for school-aged children was absent in younger children.
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However, we have not observed any direct orinverserelationbetween work satisfaction and retirement expectations.
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These factors may explain why education shows aninverserelationwith work participation, and has only a small indirect effect on marriage through work participation.
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However, they could be associated with aninverserelationas well.
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A direct relationship was determined between end-systolic pressure and isovolumic relaxation time, and aninverserelationwas found between early diastolic ventricular pressure and rapid ventricular filling.
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Both trade and their partners lived in a world in which what we might recognize as our own priorities of sexuality existed in aninverserelation.
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A more promising prospect is public works projects to stimulate demand for unskilled rural labor, thereby taking advantage of theinverserelationbetween wage rates and deforestation incentives.
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The 'height' of the place of articulation of the vowel is in aninverserelationto the frequency of its first formant.
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Overall, therefore, there was suggestive evidence that theinverserelationbetween age and sharing looks vis-à-vis other kinds of look was specific to the participants with autism.
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Pianka (1966) in his review of species diversity gradients states that there is often aninverserelation between species diversity and standing crop (which is usually related to productivity).
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