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
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
The relationship between frequency and wavelength is inversely proportional, meaning that if the frequency is doubled, the wavelength is reduced by half.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023
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
Both felt that it was a period of high visibility, that their faults and blemishes were sinking into obscurity in an inversely proportional manner.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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