Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Impossible to reverse.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not reversible; incapable of being reversed or inverted.
  • Not to be recalled or annulled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
  • adjective Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
  • adjective Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
  • adjective thermodynamics Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective incapable of being reversed

Etymologies

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ir- +‎ reversible

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  • elbisreverri.

    March 13, 2009