<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.</li><li>Mathematics: (of a proportion) containing terms of which an increase in one results in a decrease in another.</li><li>of or relating to an inverse function.</li><li>Compare direct.</li><li>inverted; turned upside down.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an inverted state or condition.</li><li>something that is inverse; the direct opposite.</li><li>Mathematics: an element of an algebraic system, as a group, corresponding to a given element such that its product or sum with the given element is the identity element.</li><li>inverse function.</li><li>a point related to a given point so that it is situated on the same radius, extended if necessary, of a given circle or sphere and so that the product of the distances of the two points from the center equals the square of the radius of the circle or sphere.</li><li>the set of such inverses of the points of a given set, as the points on a curve.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to invert.</li></ul>