These true specific heats of elements are in inverse proportion to their atomic weights--that is, their product by the atomic weight is a constant quantity.
Thoughts of home grew stronger the nearer he approached it--far stronger, as though this feeling of his was subject to the law by which the force of attraction is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
The proportion of freedom to inevitability decreases and increases according to the point of view from which the action is regarded, but their relation is always one of inverse proportion.
In the six cases the number of bacilli were in inverse proportion to the duration of the disease.
There are cases, however, in which the height of the fever and the deposited membranes are in inverse proportionto each other.
This cannot be converted as follows: Triangles whose areas are equal, have likewise equal bases and lengths; for the lengths may stand in inverse proportion to the bases.
Furthermore, the institution of the personal guardian is very rare except in North America, and there flourishes in inverse proportion to the strength of clan life proper.
He proposes to prove that the fecundity of marriages varies in inverse proportion to the density of the population.
The law of inverse variation, or inverse proportion, is as much a part of mathematical science as the law of geometric progression.
The reigning taste was so bad, that the success of a writer was in inverse proportion to his labour, and to his desire of excellence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inverse proportion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
