A Quick and Simple Dictionary

inverse

1. Adjective.  Opposite in effect or nature or order.
2. Adjective.  reverse, opposite in or order.
3. Adjective.  (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse.
4. Adjective.  ''(Kiowa-Tanaon linguistics)'' A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
5. Noun.  The opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.
6. Noun.  The reverse version of a procedure.
7. Noun.  (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.
8. Noun.  (context, logic) A statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p → ~q is the inverse of p → q.
9. Verb.  (surveying) To compute the bearing and distance between two points.