inversely proportional
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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O’Meara’s impact on her world was inversely proportional to her size.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
Typically, the resolution of light is inversely proportional to its wavelength, meaning that shorter wavelengths result in higher resolution, enabling the creation of finer and more detailed structures.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
I was the third man in this jolly arrangement, roughly analogous to Bez in the Happy Mondays insofar as my musical ability was inversely proportional to my enthusiasm in the dance.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
Variations of this law pop up everywhere in physics; for gravity, it would dictate that the gravitational force between two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023
He also noted, though, from Kepler’s laws, that the ‘endeavours of receding from the Sun’ of the planets in their orbits were inversely proportional to the squares of their distances from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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