Opposite/inverse of percentage calculation

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I'm sorry if this is already answered! I don't know the terminology.

If I have a sequence of categorical observations:

{a: 100, b: 20, c: 30}

I can calculate percentage for each category as category / sum(all categories). This would give me:

{a: 0.666.., b: 0.133.., c: 0.2}

What I am unclear on is what the calculation sum(all categories) / category would be. Which would produce:

{a: 1.5, b: 7.5, c: 5}

What do you call this? I'd think 'inverse frequency', or something like that. Searching for that wasn't helpful.