Sunday, 28 February 2016

What's the word for the reversability of equal and opposite actions?

I'd suggest "inverse" or "inverse functions"




adj. Inverted in position, order, or relations; that proceeds in the opposite or reverse direction or order; that begins where something else ends, and ends where the other begins.




Source: OED



For example, the inverse of left is right. Mathematically, the inverse of the derivative is the integral. Etc.

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