Opposite vs. Inverse
Oppositeadjective
Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
Oppositeadjective
(botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
Oppositeadjective
Facing in the other direction.
Oppositeadjective
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
Oppositeadjective
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
Oppositenoun
Something opposite or contrary to something else.
Oppositenoun
An opponent.
Oppositenoun
An antonym.
Oppositenoun
(mathematics) An additive inverse.
Oppositeadverb
In an opposite position.
Oppositepreposition
Facing, or across from.
Oppositepreposition
In a complementary role to.
Oppositepreposition
(television) On another channel at the same time.
Oppositeadjective
Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; - often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange; the concert hall and the state theater stood opposite each other on the plaza.
Oppositeadjective
Situated on the other end of an imaginary line passing through or near the middle of an intervening space or object; - of one object with respect to another; as, the office is on the opposite side of town; - also used both to describe two objects with respect to each other; as, the stores were on opposite ends of the mall.
Oppositeadjective
Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme; antonyms have opposite meanings.
Oppositeadjective
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
Oppositeadjective
Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.
Oppositenoun
One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.
Oppositenoun
That which is opposed or contrary in character or meaning; as, sweetness and its opposite; up is the opposite of down.
Oppositenoun
two words that express opposing concepts;
Oppositenoun
a relation of direct opposition;
Oppositenoun
a contestant that you are matched against
Oppositenoun
something inverted in sequence or character or effect;
Oppositeadjective
being directly across from each other; facing;
Oppositeadjective
of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem;
Oppositeadjective
moving or facing away from each other;
Oppositeadjective
the other one of a complementary pair;
Oppositeadjective
altogether different in nature or quality or significance;
Oppositeadjective
characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed;
Oppositeadverb
directly facing each other;
Inverseadjective
Opposite in effect, nature or order.
Inverseadjective
Reverse, opposite in order.
Inverseadjective
(botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
Inverseadjective
(mathematics) 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.
Inverseadjective
(geometry) 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.
Inverseadjective
Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
Inversenoun
An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards.
Inversenoun
The result of an inversion, particularly:
Inversenoun
The reverse of any procedure or process.
Inversenoun
(mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
Inversenoun
(geometry) The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
Inversenoun
(logic) The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
Inversenoun
(mathematics) 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:
Inversenoun
(addition) The negative of a given number.
Inversenoun
(multiplication) One divided by a given number.
Inversenoun
(functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
Inversenoun
(category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
Inversenoun
(card games) 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.
Inversenoun
A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
Inverseverb
(surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.
Inverseadjective
Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; - opposed to direct.
Inverseadjective
Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
Inverseadjective
Opposite in nature and effect; - said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc or angle whose sine is x.
Inversenoun
That which is inverse.
Inversenoun
something inverted in sequence or character or effect;
Inverseadjective
reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
Inverseadjective
opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity ;
