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单词 inversely
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inverselyadv.

Brit. /ˈɪnvəːsli/, /ɪnˈvəːsli/, U.S. /ˈɪnvərsli/, /ᵻnˈvərsli/
Forms: see inverse adj. and n. and -ly suffix2; also 1700s inversly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: inverse adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < inverse adj. + -ly suffix2.Compare post-classical Latin inverse (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine).
1. So as to be reversed or transposed, or to have the opposite or contrary nature or effect. Cf. inverse adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adverb] > in reversed order
reversea1393
topsy-turvy1528
preposterously1533
hysteron proteron1602
inverselya1628
inversedly1645
reversedly1649
reversely1659
reverse ways1762
ass-backward1939
a1628 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated (1635) ii. iv. 61 The side of the whole Triangle ABC will shew it selfe in the Table NM, although inuersely placed according to the sides and Angles.
1767 tr. C. di Beccaria Bonesana Ess. Crimes xxvi. 96 It seems as if the greatness of a state ought to be inversely as the sensibility and activity of the individuals.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 129 At the Last Quarter we get a phase like that presented at the first quarter, but inversely situated.
1960 U.S. Patent 2,948,100 5 The bevel gears..are inversely arranged, so as to turn in a direction to direct the grain being cut inward toward conveyor 10.
2009 G. Blix From Paris to Pompeii iii. 48 If the neoclassical gaze had blocked out what was alien to its aesthetic ideal and extracted what conformed to it, the archaeological gaze now proceeded inversely by replacing artifacts in their original setting.
2. So as to be upside down. Cf. inverse adj. 1.Chiefly in scientific contexts.
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the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adverb]
upa1300
nevelinga1387
kew-kaw1399
overc1425
topsy-turvy1530
arsy-versy1545
upside down1569
overhand1579
bottom-up1598
downside up1603
top to bottom1624
inversely1657
invertedly1657
belly-up1749
topsy versy1767
topsy-turvily1886
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii. in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ggg3v Some sharp Vinegar must be infused into a Hogshead, or other ample vessel; whereon a brazen vessel must be inversly superimposed.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 15 Bloss. Petals two; inversely heart-shaped.
1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria vii. 133 Of an inversely pyramidal shape.
1958 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 49 227 The scattergrams did not, in any case, show any tendency to be inversely U-shaped.
2007 Jrnl. Vertebr. Paleontol. 27 469/1 The nuchal ligament depression is shallow and inversely triangular.
3. With reference to the manner in which two quantities vary: so that one increases (or decreases) in proportion to a decrease (or increase) in the other.
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1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. 114 All the Bodies mutually attract one another with accelerative Forces, which are as their Masses directly and the Squares of their distances inversely.
c1860 M. Faraday Var. Forces Nature ii. 46 Two bodies attract each other inversely as the square of the distance.
1913 E. Rutherford in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 6th Ser. 26 709 The scattering coefficient varied inversely as the fourth power of the velocity.
2007 J. Andrews & N. Jelley Energy Sci. x. 279 The electric field at the outer surface varies inversely with the radius of the cable.

Compounds

inversely conical adj. conical with the vertex downward.Chiefly in scientific contexts.
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1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 551 Seed-bud inversely conical.
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 310 The Radiolite has an inversely conical under-valve, with a deep straight cavity.
2013 Physiol. Rev. 93 70/1 The physical structure of the lipids, whether cylindrical, conical, or inversely conical, can affect the intrinsic curvature of membranes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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