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irreversible
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See also: irréversible
English
Etymology
From ir- + reversible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irreversible (not comparable)
- Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
- an irreversible engine
- Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
- an irreversible sentence or decree
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
- 2024 December 17, Lex Harvey, “Microplastics are choking our waters. Could a sponge made of squid bones help remove them?”, in CNN:
- “Even under a variety of policies, including plastic product reduction, waste management, and environmental recycling, microplastic pollution is irreversible and escalating.”
- (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
Derived terms
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Translations
incapable of being reversed
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incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled
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Catalan
Etymology
From ir- + reversible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irreversible m or f (masculine and feminine plural irreversibles)
Further reading
- “irreversible”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
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Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
irreversible
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
irreversible
Spanish
Etymology
From ir- + reversible.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irreversible m or f (masculine and feminine plural irreversibles)
- irreversible (not able to be reversed)
- Antonym: reversible
Derived terms
Further reading
- “irreversible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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