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Definition of Irreversibility
1. Noun. The quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed).
Derivative terms: Irreversible
Antonyms: Reversibility
Definition of Irreversibility
1. n. The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.
Definition of Irreversibility
1. Noun. The quality of being irreversible; the lack of an ability to be reversed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irreversibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Irreversibility
Literary usage of Irreversibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Economy in Steam and Other Thermal Power-plants: As Dependent by Robert Henry Smith (1905)
"Their leading characteristic is irreversibility. This irreversibility is a
principle second in importance only to that of the conservation of energy ..."
2. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"irreversibility of direction of conduction in reflex-arcs. Reversibility of
direction of conduction in certain nerve-nets, eg that of Medusa. ..."
3. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"PART II The irreversibility of degenerative evolution MOST authorities on the
subject are agreed that evolution is not reversible,1 and that institutions or ..."
4. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The transformations which here occur in heating clearly are very far from the
exact reverse of those which occurred in cooling. 321. Why irreversibility ..."
5. Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys by Henry Marion Howe (1906)
"WHY irreversibility IMPLIES ABSENCE OF EQUILIBRIUM. — The reasons have really
made themselves clear in this example. If cooling is too rapid to permit the ..."
6. Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys by Henry Marion Howe (1906)
"HARDENED STEEL ILLUSTRATES irreversibility. — Suppose that this steel is above
the transformation-point Ac,, and therefore is austenite; suppose we cool it ..."
7. The Temperature-entropy Diagram by Charles William Berry (1908)
"EFFECT OF irreversibility. THE condition of a substance is in general completely
denned by any two of its five characteristic properties, specific pressure, ..."
8. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1903)
"The crux of irreversibility suggests that the world is not a mere mechanism.
The physicist only describes the utterances of real things and the after-course ..."
9. Commercial Economy in Steam and Other Thermal Power-plants: As Dependent by Robert Henry Smith (1905)
"Their leading characteristic is irreversibility. This irreversibility is a
principle second in importance only to that of the conservation of energy ..."
10. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"irreversibility of direction of conduction in reflex-arcs. Reversibility of
direction of conduction in certain nerve-nets, eg that of Medusa. ..."
11. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"PART II The irreversibility of degenerative evolution MOST authorities on the
subject are agreed that evolution is not reversible,1 and that institutions or ..."
12. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"The transformations which here occur in heating clearly are very far from the
exact reverse of those which occurred in cooling. 321. Why irreversibility ..."
13. Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys by Henry Marion Howe (1906)
"WHY irreversibility IMPLIES ABSENCE OF EQUILIBRIUM. — The reasons have really
made themselves clear in this example. If cooling is too rapid to permit the ..."
14. Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys by Henry Marion Howe (1906)
"HARDENED STEEL ILLUSTRATES irreversibility. — Suppose that this steel is above
the transformation-point Ac,, and therefore is austenite; suppose we cool it ..."
15. The Temperature-entropy Diagram by Charles William Berry (1908)
"EFFECT OF irreversibility. THE condition of a substance is in general completely
denned by any two of its five characteristic properties, specific pressure, ..."
16. Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the by James Ward (1903)
"The crux of irreversibility suggests that the world is not a mere mechanism.
The physicist only describes the utterances of real things and the after-course ..."
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