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converse

converse

1 8.6
Showing a reversed relationship, like parent and child
  • adjective
  • /kənˈvɜrs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : inverso
  • Further, the converse statement is shown to be also true on a certain version of the abstraction procedure.

Examples

  • But what about the converse phenomena: active and aggressive denial?

    Blog text (29)

  • If a politician votes for special interests, the converse dynamic will kick in.

    Blog text (15)

  • And in fact, the converse, how memory effects our perceptions of time and space?

  • We now consider the converse case, where we demand such a unification and explore its consequences.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The converse correlation is also valid.

    Academic text (1998)

  • And the converse of that is, you know, cynicism or scepticism is more mature intellectually in some way.

  • Analyses of performance data, disaggregated by ethnicity, however, revealed different patterns that were at times converse to test-taking growth patterns.

    Academic text (2015)

  • At the elementary level, the implementation of school-wide PBS has greatly reduced discipline referral rates; however, although the same discipline system is in place at the middle school level, there has been a converse effect on the number of discipline referrals.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The terms 'converse' and 'inverse' are related but not identical.

  • In mathematics, the inverse operation is converse to the original operation.

Synonyms

inverse
vsconverse
  • Specialized
17 6.1

Opposite in effect or direction, where one thing increases while the other decreases

refers specifically to relations that are exact reversals between two terms
correlative
vsconverse
2 7.2

Showing a matching, two-way relationship with something else

denotes a strict reversed relation where each term names the other's side

Surface Forms

converse positive

Morphology

converse = verse (opaque) = con + verse

Although the form can be analysed as 'con-' + 'verse', the modern adjectival sense 'having a reversed relationship' is not derivable from those parts by an average learner.

Etymology

The word converse as an adjective comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and vertere 'to turn', giving the image of things 'turned the other way', the same idea behind the common word reverse. That's why converse describes a relation that is the opposite or the other way round, like 'parent' and 'child'.