irreversible

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Adjective

irreversible (comparative more irreversible, superlative most irreversible)

1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.
3. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

Translations

incapable of being reversed

Czech: nevratný (cs) m. Dutch: onomkeerbaar (nl) Finnish: peruuttamaton French: irréversible (fr) German: irreversibel, unumkehrbar

Japanese: 不可逆 (ja) (fukagyaku) Manx: neuyantagh cur ergooyl (gv), neuyantagh dy chur er ash (gv) Russian: необратимый (ru) (neobratímyj) Spanish: irreversible (es)