Difference between Reverse and Inverse

What is the difference between Reverse and Inverse?

Reverse as an adjective is having the order of its constituents moved backwards in time or space. while Inverse as an adjective is opposite in effect or nature or order

Reverse

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having the order of its constituents moved backwards in time or space. Causing movement in the opposite direction. to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The opposite of front. The opposite of forward. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction. To turn something inside out or upside down. To transpose the positions of two things. To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite. To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction. To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa. To place a set of points in the reverse position to move from the normal position to the reverse position

Inverse

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Opposite in effect or nature or orderreverse, opposite in or orderHaving the properties of an inverse.(Kiowa-Tanaon linguistics) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The opposite of a given, due to contrary nature or effect.The reverse version of a procedure.The inverse of an element x with respect to a binary operation is an element that when combined with x yields the appropriate identity element.A statement constructed from the negatives of the premise and conclusion of some other statement: ~p → ~q is the inverse of p → q.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To compute the bearing and distance between two points.

We hope you now know whether to use Reverse or Inverse in your sentence.

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