irreversible

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜː.sə.bəl/ (UK)
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/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜː.sə.bəl/ (UK) · /ˌɪr.ɪˈvɝ.sə.bəl/ (US)

Definition of irreversible

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
    “an irreversible engine”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
    “an irreversible engine”
  2. (not-comparable)Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
    “an irreversible sentence or decree”
    “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.”
    ““Even under a variety of policies, including plastic product reduction, waste management, and environmental recycling, microplastic pollution is irreversible and escalating.””
  3. (not-comparable)Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

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Etymology

From ir- + reversible.

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