inverse proportion
Opposite scaling pattern
Inverse proportion describes a relationship where one quantity increases as another decreases by a corresponding amount.
If you double one, you halve the other.
Speed and travel time are inversely proportional: Drive twice as fast and the trip takes half as long.
Also called inverse ratio.
The adjective is inversely proportional.
- Boyle's lawPressure times volume constant
- demand curveGraph of price versus quantity
- oppositeReverse or contrary thing
- trade-offExchange requiring sacrifice
- risk rewardPotential loss versus gain
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inverse proportionpositive correlation
Variables move same direction
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