inverse

Meanings

Adjective

• Opposite in effect, nature or order.
• Reverse, opposite in order.
• Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 upside down or inside out or backwards.
• The result of an inversion, particularly:
• 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:
• A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
• 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.
• A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.

Verb

• To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

Related

Similar words

• additive inverse
• multiplicative inverse
• compositional inverse
• inverse point, inverse curve

Opposite words

• compute .

Origin

• Recorded since 1440, from Latin inversus, the past participle of invertere, itself from in- + vertere.