irreversible

See also: irréversible

Contents

English

Etymology

From ir- +‎ reversible.

Adjective

irreversible (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.

   an irreversible engine

2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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.

3. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

Related terms

• irreversibility

Translations

incapable of being reversed

• Catalan: irreversible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: nevratný
• Dutch: onomkeerbaar (nl)
• Estonian: pöördumatu
• Finnish: peruuttamaton (fi)
• French: irréversible (fr)
• Georgian: შეუქცევადი (šeukcevadi), გამოუსწორებადი (gamousc̣orebadi)
• German: irreversibel (de), unumkehrbar (de)
• Italian: irreversibile (it)
• Japanese: 不可逆 (fukagyaku)

• Manx: neuyantagh cur ergooyl, neuyantagh dy chur er ash
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irreversibel

  Nynorsk: irreversibel

• Polish: nieodwracalny (pl)
• Portuguese: irreversível (pt)
• Romanian: ireversibil (ro)
• Russian: необрати́мый (ru) (neobratímyj)
• Spanish: irreversible
• Swedish: oåterkallelig (sv), irreversibel (sv)
• Tagalog: ditumbalikin

incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irreversibel

  Nynorsk: irreversibel

• Polish: nieodwołalny (pl)
• Portuguese: irreversível (pt)
• Tagalog: ditumbalikin

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Catalan

Etymology

From ir- +‎ reversible.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /i.rə.vəɾˈsi.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i.rə.bərˈsi.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.re.veɾˈsi.ble/

Adjective

irreversible (masculine and feminine plural irreversibles)

1. irreversible

Further reading

• “irreversible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

irreversible

1. inflection of irreversibel:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

irreversible

1. inflection of irreversibel:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

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Spanish

Etymology

From ir- +‎ reversible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ireberˈsible/, [ireβerˈsiβle]

Adjective

irreversible (plural irreversibles)

1. irreversible (not able to be reversed)

   Antonym: reversible

Further reading

• “irreversible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.