VICE VERSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vice versa mean? 

• VICE VERSA (adverb)
  The adverb VICE VERSA has 1 sense:

1. with the order reversed

  Familiarity information: VICE VERSA used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICE VERSA (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With the order reversed

Synonyms:

contrariwise; the other way around; vice versa

Context example:

she hates him and vice versa

 Context examples 

Such devices may be electrical, fluidic or mechanical and are sometimes used to convert a small continuous power source into a short surge of energy or vice versa.

(Device Energy Storage System Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

He could not open the door without first closing the closet door, and vice versa.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Multiple point mutations in a DNA sequence from eukaryotic or prokaryotic organisms in which each mutation occurs by substitution of a purine base for a pyrimidine base or vice versa.

(Multiple Transversion Abnormalities, NCI Thesaurus)

Control group subjects who drank only beer the first time around received only wine on the second study day (and vice versa).

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

The principle of "planetary defense," aimed at preventing the contamination of Earth by alien organisms and vice versa, is used by international space agencies during all interplanetary missions.

(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Might some of us, more than others, harbor Neanderthal-derived gene variants that may bias our brains toward trading sociability for visuospatial prowess – or vice versa?

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

Taking into account a range of plausible erosion rates, they calculated that it would have taken anywhere between roughly a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years for the ice to erode the crater to its current shape — the faster the erosion rate, the younger the crater would be within the plausible range, and vice versa.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

It’s very possible! (Some Cancers have enchanting romantic relationships, but not so happy business ones, and vice versa.) If you have no relationship problems at all, that means you have no planets sensitive to Saturn and Pluto in late degrees of Capricorn or that your relationships are strong—remember, there are testing aspects on all levels, and in all close, one-on-one relationships.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Not all patients experience these painful symptoms with the same level of intensity, and some react more adversely than others to cold temperatures (cold allodynia) as opposed to tactile sensations (tactile allodynia), and vice versa.

(Genetic study paves way for new neuropathic pain treatments, University of Granada)

You may be working together on a business project, or you may want your sister to help you with a new baby (or vice versa, your sister may need you to help her) or to or assist a family member—most likely a parent—and pool money and time to make sure your parent is attended to in a loving way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)