How to Use inversely proportional in a Sentence

inversely proportional

adjective
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  • The study indicates that the unemployment rate and inflation are inversely proportional.
  • The bond yields are inversely proportional to their prices.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 May 2022
  • This force depends on the mass of both objects and has a magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the centers of the two bodies.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The magnitude of this force is proportional to the product of the masses of the two objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
  • So an axion would behave more like a wave (or wave packet) than a particle, and the size of the wave packets is inversely proportional to their mass.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Their puny masses would be inversely proportional to those of the heavy neutrinos that arose in the early universe.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Buying a truck can be a lesson on the paradox of choice, which says that happiness is inversely proportional to the number of options available.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
  • All watching this saga cannot help but note that the ability to obtain a guilty plea by those prosecuting the president and his supporters is inversely proportional to the wealth of the defendant.
    — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • The Law of the Diaper Blowout: The noise your infant's bowel movements produce is inversely proportional to how quiet the surrounding environment is.
    — Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 12 Dec. 2011
  • Fairly or not, people's reverence for weddings tends to be inversely proportional to their number.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • And since ozone concentration is inversely proportional to temperature, a warmer stratosphere equates to depletion of the ozone layer.
    — Martin N. Ross, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2020
  • One of the oldest traditions in workout design is that of making the intensity and the duration of intervals inversely proportional.
    — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
  • Change in Latin/Hispanic representation has been inversely proportional to their change in the real-world population, with drops in inclusion in front of and behind the camera both in film and television.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The amount of assist supplied is inversely proportional to vehicle speed, with the highest levels of assist provided at lower vehicle speeds.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2019
  • Prestigious private schools typically have a low student-teacher ratio, while in public schools class size is often inversely proportional to funding — the less funding, the larger the classes.
    — David Buice, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But the event’s outcome is ultimately decided by the machinations of powerful guys whose ruthlessness seems inversely proportional to their health.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • That’s in large part thanks to Hale herself, an avowedly outdoorsy person whose talent seems somehow inversely proportional to her (lack of) interest in gaming — a vocal powerhouse able to emote seemingly without cue or context.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Only a few rare alleles are maintained in the population through frequency dependent dynamics, where the strength of selection is inversely proportional to the frequency of the allele in question.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2012
  • The researchers found that mannose sensitivity was inversely proportional to the levels of an enzyme that helps metabolize mannose.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
  • Interestingly, that social force is related to the repulsive force between two electrons, which is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them—in other words, the force decreases as the distance between the particles increases.
    — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Cove’s first results, later published as his Ph.D. dissertation, were damning: woodrat population density was inversely proportional to the number of feral cats on the landscape.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2020
  • As a result, the success of conifers and edibles is typically an inversely proportional relationship.
    — Colin McCrate, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019

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