Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- used mostly of clothing. Opposite of
reversible .
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- adjective Not
reversible ;irreversible
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- adjective not reversible or capable of having either side out
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Examples
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The workers dispatched the easy decisions quickly, whether they were reversible or not, and they spent only slightly more time on the hard, nonreversible decisions.
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In reality, many leading theoretical physicists have speculated that time may not really exist; that the appearance of things happening in a linear, nonreversible order may be a reality—or perhaps illusion—in our minds only; that all things and all times really are one.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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In reality, many leading theoretical physicists have speculated that time may not really exist; that the appearance of things happening in a linear, nonreversible order may be a reality—or perhaps illusion—in our minds only; that all things and all times really are one.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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In reality, many leading theoretical physicists have speculated that time may not really exist; that the appearance of things happening in a linear, nonreversible order may be a reality—or perhaps illusion—in our minds only; that all things and all times really are one.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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In reality, many leading theoretical physicists have speculated that time may not really exist; that the appearance of things happening in a linear, nonreversible order may be a reality—or perhaps illusion—in our minds only; that all things and all times really are one.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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They are not only painful, but increase the chance of infection, which in turn can cause nonreversible damage to the eye.
Protect Your Peepers 2007
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Someone with severe erratic behaviour or an emotional disturbed person can have detrimental chemical reactions causing nonreversible destruction even prior to the police be called.
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Specialists recognize that the present thermodynamic laws do not suffice to explain all nonreversible phenomena, including especially life processes.
Energy and economic myths (historical) Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 2007
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Onsager also formulated a general mathematical expression about the behavior of nonreversible chemical processes that has been described as the “fourth law of thermodynamics.”
Onsager, Lars 2007
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Most people want to believe that humanity is indestructible, that our species cannot be eradicated or eliminated or negatively impacted in any truly widespread or nonreversible way by anyone or anything.
What God Wants Neale Donald Walsch 2005
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