irreversible
See also: irréversible
English
editEtymology
editFrom ir- + reversible.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editirreversible (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- Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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[1]:
- “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
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editincapable of being reversed
|
incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled
|
Catalan
editEtymology
editFrom ir- + reversible.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [i.rə.βərˈsib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [i.rə.vərˈsib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [i.re.veɾˈsi.ble]
Adjective
editirreversible m or f (masculine and feminine plural irreversibles)
Further reading
edit- “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], 2007 April
Norwegian Bokmål
editAdjective
editirreversible
Norwegian Nynorsk
editAdjective
editirreversible
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom ir- + reversible.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editirreversible m or f (masculine and feminine plural irreversibles)
- irreversible (not able to be reversed)
- Antonym: reversible
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “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], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- English terms prefixed with ir-
- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Thermodynamics
- Catalan terms prefixed with ir-
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan epicene adjectives
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål adjective forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk adjective forms
- Spanish terms prefixed with in-
- Spanish 5-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ible
- Rhymes:Spanish/ible/5 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish epicene adjectives