Reverse vs Inverse - What's the difference?
reverse | inverse |
Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
(rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
* Gower
(botany) Reversed.
*, Bk.XVIII:
*:they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.
*1963 , Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact :
*:The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse , / Where miracles alone were ever plain.
The opposite of something.
The act of going backwards; a reversal.
* Lamb
A piece of misfortune; a setback.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 309:
The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
To turn something inside out or upside down.
* Sir W. Temple
To transpose the positions of two things.
To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To return, come back.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.4:
(obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.
* Spenser
(legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
(ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
(rail transport) To place a set of points in the reverse position
(rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position
To overthrow; to subvert.
* Alexander Pope
* Rogers
Opposite in effect or nature or order
reverse, opposite in order
(botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
(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.
(linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
(category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
The opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.
:: ''Deposing is the inverse of installing, and vice versa
The reverse version of a procedure.
(mathematics) The inverse of an element x'' with respect to a binary operation is an element that when combined with ''x yields the appropriate identity element.
(logic) A statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p ? ~q is the inverse of p ? q.
(surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.
Inverse is a related term of reverse.
In botany terms the difference between reverse and inverse
is that reverse is reversed while inverse is inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.In lang=en terms the difference between reverse and inverse
is that reverse is to revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite while inverse is a statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p → ~q is the inverse of p → q.As adjectives the difference between reverse and inverse
is that reverse is opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction while inverse is opposite in effect or nature or order.As nouns the difference between reverse and inverse
is that reverse is the opposite of something while inverse is the opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.As verbs the difference between reverse and inverse
is that reverse is to turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction while inverse is to compute the bearing and distance between two points.As an adverb reverse
is in a reverse way or direction; upside-down.reverse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.
- The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.
- He selected reverse gear.
- He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse .
- a reverse shell
Antonyms
* (rail transport) normalDerived terms
* reverse discriminationAdverb
(en adverb)Noun
(en noun)- We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.
- By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.
- In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* in reverseVerb
(revers)- A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.
- Reverse the doom of death.
- She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.
- Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse ?
- And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse .
- And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.
- to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree
- These can divide, and these reverse , the state.
- Custom reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.
Derived terms
* to reverse out * bootlegger reverse * reversal nounAntonyms
* (rail transport) normalise / normalize (transitive and intransitive)Anagrams
* * * English ergative verbs ----inverse
English
Adjective
(-)- Multiplication is the inverse operation to division.
Derived terms
* inverse function * inverselyNoun
(en noun)- Removing one's shoes is the inverse of putting one's shoes on
- The additive inverse of x is -x as, x + -x = 0 where 0 is the additive identity element.
- The multiplicative inverse of x is x-1 as, x * x-1 = 1 where 1 is the multiplicative identity element.
- ''The compositional inverse of a function f is f–1 as, f f–1 is the identity function (ie f–1(f(a)) = a for all a).
