Below you will find example sentences with "opposite direction". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Opposite Direction in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: direction
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 27
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.5 words

Words in this phrase

opposite direction

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • opposite can mean: Located directly across from something else, or from each other. Frequent word
  • direction can mean: A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, out... Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 6 middle, 13 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

in the opposite direction 8× in the opposite direction shift the 2× in the opposite direction to the 2× from with opposite direction 1× in the opposite direction and help 1× in the opposite direction each one 1× in the opposite direction emits the 1× in the opposite direction from the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

so two vectors 2× a force spokesman 1× any value which 1× as early as 1× as the negatively 1× basically after looking 1×

Common sentence endings:

the opposite direction 9× but opposite direction 1× driving a propeller 1× in opposite directions 1× in the electrolyte 1× lifting them forwards 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

two 6× vectors 5× same 5× force 5× magnitude 3× changes 3× charged 3× flow 3× parallel 2× antiparallel 2× variables 2× shift 2×

Related phrases

same direction opposite side opposite effect opposite sides

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around direction:

same direction 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

opportunity presents opinion polls operator license operations manager operational excellence operational efficiency

Just after it in the phrase index:

opposite effect opposite side opposite sides opposition leader opposition leaders opposition mps

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

opposite side opposite effect opposite sides

Same ending:

same direction

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "opposite direction" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 27.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as in the opposite direction, in the opposite direction shift the, two, vectors and same stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with same direction, opposite side, opposite effect and same direction, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with opposite direction

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Changes in these variables in the opposite direction shift the LM curve in the opposite direction. (16 words)

Make large circles with your hips, first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. (16 words)

Of course, changes in these variables in the opposite direction shift the IS curve in the opposite direction. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

When the magnetic sail's field is oriented in the opposite direction to the magnetosphere it experiences a force inward and toward the nearest pole, and when it is oriented in the same direction as the magnetosphere it experiences the opposite effect. (42 words)

As early as 1906 Charles Benjamin Redrup had demonstrated to the Royal Flying Corps at Hendon a 'Reactionless' engine in which the crankshaft rotated in one direction and the cylinder block in the opposite direction, each one driving a propeller. (40 words)

If the charged object has a positive charge the force will be in the direction of the electric field vector at that point while if the charge is negative the force will be in the opposite direction. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

So two vectors : and : are equal if : Opposite, parallel, and antiparallel vectors Two vectors are opposite if they have the same magnitude but opposite direction.

Changes in these variables in the opposite direction shift the LM curve in the opposite direction.

Of course, changes in these variables in the opposite direction shift the IS curve in the opposite direction.

So two vectors : and : are opposite if : Two vectors are parallel if they have the same direction but not necessarily the same magnitude, or antiparallel if they have opposite direction but not necessarily the same magnitude.

When the magnetic sail's field is oriented in the opposite direction to the magnetosphere it experiences a force inward and toward the nearest pole, and when it is oriented in the same direction as the magnetosphere it experiences the opposite effect.

Any value which is negative does not lie on the ray, but rather in the opposite half-line (i.e. the one starting from with opposite direction).

This phenomenon can occur because the medium is moving in the opposite direction to the wave, or it can arise in a stationary medium as a result of interference between two waves traveling in opposite directions.

A force spokesman said: “The car was travelling in the direction of when it collided with the bus which was travelling in the opposite direction.

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Make large circles with your hips, first in one direction and then in the opposite direction.

Basically, after looking at something moving in one direction for a while, something that is still will appear to move in the opposite direction.

When illuminated in the backwards direction, the acoustic vibrations spin in the opposite direction and help cancel out any light trying to exit.

One of the concerns has been that drivers are dangerously overtaking other vehicles in areas where two lanes of traffic are headed one direction and a third headed in the opposite direction.

As early as 1906 Charles Benjamin Redrup had demonstrated to the Royal Flying Corps at Hendon a 'Reactionless' engine in which the crankshaft rotated in one direction and the cylinder block in the opposite direction, each one driving a propeller.

As the negatively charged electrons flow in one direction around this circuit, the positively charged metal ions flow in the opposite direction in the electrolyte.

Current flow in one direction emits one color, and current in the opposite direction emits the other color.

Diffusers are long vessels of many metres in which the beet slices go in one direction while hot water goes in the opposite direction.

From our rotating perspective on the planet, its direction of motion changes as it moves, bending in the opposite direction to our actual motion.

Games that originate in a region with a strong preference are often initially played in the original direction, even in regions that prefer the opposite direction.

If the charged object has a positive charge the force will be in the direction of the electric field vector at that point while if the charge is negative the force will be in the opposite direction.

If the speed of the car decreases, this is an acceleration in the opposite direction from the direction of the vehicle, sometimes called deceleration. citation Passengers may experience deceleration as a force lifting them forwards.

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