
Opposite
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Opposite may refer to:
- Opposite (semantics), a word that means the opposite of a word
- BotanyBotanyBotany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
: "Opposite" is a kind of arrangement of leaves - Additive inverseAdditive inverseIn mathematics, the additive inverse, or opposite, of a number a is the number that, when added to a, yields zero.The additive inverse of a is denoted −a....
, in mathematics, taking the negative ("opposite") of a number - Opposite categoryDual (category theory)In category theory, a branch of mathematics, duality is a correspondence between properties of a category C and so-called dual properties of the opposite category Cop...
or dual category, in category theory