meaning of inverse

1. Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.
2. Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
3. 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 whose sine is x.
4. That which is inverse.
5. inverse Given a function, f : D -> C, a function g : C -> D is called a left inverse for f if for all d in D, g f d = d and a right inverse if, for all c in C, f g c = c and an inverse if both conditions hold. Only an injection has a left inverse, only a surjection has a right inverse and only a bijection has inverses. The inverse of f is often written as f with a -1 superscript.
6. something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the ">inverse"

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