irreversible

See also: irréversible

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EtymologyEdit

ir- +‎ reversible

AdjectiveEdit

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 Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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

TranslationsEdit

incapable of being reversed

• Czech: nevratný m
• Dutch: onomkeerbaar
• Finnish: peruuttamaton (fi)
• French: irréversible (fr)
• Georgian: შეუქცევადი ‎(šeukcevadi), გამოუსწორებადი ‎(gamousc̣orebadi)
• German: irreversibel (de), unumkehrbar (de)
• Japanese: 不可逆 ‎(fukagyaku)
• Manx: neuyantagh cur ergooyl, neuyantagh dy chur er ash

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irreversibel

  Nynorsk: irreversibel

• Polish: nieodwracalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: irreversível (pt)
• Romanian: ireversibil (ro) m, ireversibilă f
• 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incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled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) m
• Portuguese: irreversível (pt)
• Tagalog: ditumbalikin

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

AdjectiveEdit

irreversible

1. definite singular of irreversibel
2. plural form of irreversibel

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

AdjectiveEdit

irreversible

1. definite singular of irreversibel
2. plural form of irreversibel

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SpanishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

irreversible m, f ‎(plural irreversibles)

1. irreversible (not able to be reversed)