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Examples of inversely proportional in a Sentence
The study indicates that the unemployment rate and inflation are inversely proportional.
Recent Examples on the Web
Your chances of having such an effect are inversely proportional to how much the issue matters at that moment.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
To be sure, the theory of lipstick sales and economic health being inversely proportional can be hard to break down in the broader beauty category.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Mar. 2024
The amount of gravitational attraction between two objects is proportional to the masses of those objects, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
The pressure that acts on the plates is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the distance between the plates.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
My anxiety around humans was inversely proportional to my comfort in the cage with the bonobos.
—Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
Change in Latin/Hispanic representation has been inversely proportional to their change in the real-world population, with drops in inclusion in front of and behind the camera both in film and television.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
Only a few rare alleles are maintained in the population through frequency dependent dynamics, where the strength of selection is inversely proportional to the frequency of the allele in question.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2012
The bond yields are inversely proportional to their prices.
—Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 May 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1723, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of inversely proportional was
in 1723
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“Inversely proportional.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inversely%20proportional. Accessed 14 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
inversely proportional
adjective
: related by inverse variation compare directly proportional
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