conversely

With a reversed relationship.

Adverb

  1. With a reversed relationship.
    • If two parallelograms, which have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, be equal to one another, the sides about the equal angles are reciprocally proportional, and conversely. - 1784, John West,...
    • Proposition I. If four quantities are proportional, the product of the extremes is equal to the product of the means, and conversely. - 1860, Benjamin Greenleaf, “Section XIX. Ratios.”, in A Practical Treatise on...
    • Glasses (perspicua) can be so constructed that objects at a very great distance appear to be quite close at hand, and conversely. Thus we read the smallest letters from an incredible distance, number objects, however...
  2. From another point of view; on the other hand.
    • At 123 yards, Royal Troon's par-3 eighth in the shortest hole in the Open Championship rota. Known as the "Postage Stamp," the eighth's distance has produced plenty of aces – most recently, Ernie Els in 2004, but Gene...
    • So the issue of unification only comes up when the geometry can no longer be treated as a mere background, or conversely, when the classical theory is no longer accurate. But these circumstances exist (as far as we...
    • We live in a time when roughly half of the jobs in 2020 are not yet known to us, and conversely, half of the jobs today will be extinct. - 2017 April 17, Derrick Chang, “What skills does Singapore need for the future...

Origin

Etymology tree English converse Middle English -ly English -ly English conversely From converse + -ly.

Synonyms

the other way round vice versa at the same time however on the flip side then again