The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inversely \In*verse"ly\, adv. In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.
Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.
Wiktionary
a. (context mathematics English) Proportional to the reciprocal of the independent variable.
Usage examples of "inversely proportional".
It was my theory that his obsession with body building was inversely proportional to his obsession with his job.
Within the limits of its efficiency, it completely eliminated g force, placing an accelerating vessel in a permanent state of internal zero-gee, but its capacity to damp inertia was directly proportional to the power of the grav wave around it and inversely proportional to both the volume of the field and the mass of the vessel about which it was generated.
Terror was destructive to the beacon, the effect inversely proportional to the distance of the terrified mind and directly proportional to the degree of emotion.
From this experiment he deduced the theory of gravity -- that all objects in the universe attracted one another with a force directly proportional to their mass and inversely proportional to their separation from one another.
Planck's law tells us that the energy of a single photon is proportional to its frequency (inversely proportional to its wavelength).
What has happened to our perfect gas, with its pressure inversely proportional to volume?
The amount of sunlight a body receives is inversely proportional to the square of its distance from the Sun.
Her usual joke that bust size was inversely proportional to brain size was a defense mechanism.
Nowadays, we would say that the angular velocity of a planet is inversely proportional to its distance from the Sun, but Kepler was raised in the classical tradition that used geometrical arguments for analysis, and he put it differently.