reversible

See also: réversible

English

Etymology

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French.

Adjective

reversible (not comparable)

1. Able to be reversed.
2. (of clothing) Able to be worn inside out.
3. (chemistry, of a chemical reaction) Capable of proceeding in either direction.
4. (physics, of a phase change) Capable of returning to the original state.
5. (thermodynamics) Capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

Antonyms

• irreversible

Derived terms

• bireversible
• endoreversible
• irreversible
• microreversible
• nonreversible
• photoreversible
• pseudoreversible
• quasireversible
• reversibility
• thermoreversible
• unreversible

 

Translations

able to be reversed

• Catalan: reversible
• Czech: vratný (cs)
• Dutch: omkeerbaar (nl)
• Finnish: kääntyvä (fi), käännettävä (fi)
• French: réversible (fr)
• Georgian: შექცევადი (šekcevadi), შექცევითი (šekceviti)
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• Greek: αναιρέσιμος (el) (anairésimos), αναστρέψιμος (el) (anastrépsimos)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reverserbar, reversibel, vendbar

  Nynorsk: reverserbar, reversibel, vendbar

• Romanian: reversibil (ro)
• Spanish: reversible

clothing that can be worn inside out

• French: réversible (fr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vendbar

  Nynorsk: vendbar

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• Swedish: vändbar (sv)

Anagrams

• silver beer

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Catalan

Adjective

reversible m or f (masculine and feminine plural reversibles)

1. reversible

Related terms

• revers

Further reading

• “reversible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “reversible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “reversible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “reversible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

reversible

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of reversibel
2. plural of reversibel

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

reversible

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of reversibel
2. plural of reversibel

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Spanish

Adjective

1. reversible

Further reading

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