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Term: Reverse Proportional

Part of Speech: Adjective

Sense 1: Inverse relationship between two variables where an increase in one variable leads to a decrease in the other variable.

Example Sentence: The amount of time taken to complete a task is reverse proportional to the number of people assigned to it.

Sense 2: In statistics, a relationship between two variables in which the product of the values of the variables remains constant.

Example Sentence: In a reverse proportional relationship, doubling the value of one variable will result in halving the value of the other.

Sense 3: In mathematics, a relationship between two quantities where the increase in one quantity corresponds to the decrease in the other quantity in a non-linear manner.

Example Sentence: The reverse proportional relationship between pressure and volume in Boyle's Law states that as the volume of a gas decreases, the pressure increases.

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