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Definition of Irreversible
1. Adjective. Incapable of being reversed. "Irreversible momentum toward revolution"
Definition of Irreversible
1. a. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
Definition of Irreversible
1. Adjective. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward. ¹
2. Adjective. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled. ¹
3. Adjective. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irreversible
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Irreversible
1. Incapable of being reversed. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irreversible
Literary usage of Irreversible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"irreversible simultaneous linear reactions. By HO JONES, MA, ... In the case
under consideration the reactions are irreversible and under these conditions ..."
2. Principles of Thermodynamics by George Alfred Goodenough (1911)
"In certain cases the closed cycle of operations of a heat motor may contain an
adiabatic irreversible process, the irreversibility arising either from ..."
3. Principles of Thermodynamics by George Alfred Goodenough (1911)
"In certain cases the closed cycle of operations of a heat motor may contain an
adiabatic irreversible process, the irreversibility arising either from ..."
4. Problems of Science by Federigo Enriques (1914)
"... of every element in the system depends, so that the laws of thermodynamics
here appear as limiting cases of mechanics. § IS. irreversible PHENOMENA. ..."
5. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"Divorce pronounced with an expression of vehemence is irreversible in it?
effect.—IF a man give to the divorce which he is pronouncing a description of ..."
6. Elements of Heat-power Engineering by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld, William Nichols Barnard (1915)
"Some irreversible Processes, (a) One of the best examples of an intrinsically
irreversible process is ... The process is then irreversible by definition. ..."
7. Elements of Heat-power Engineering by Clarence Floyd Hirshfeld (1915)
"Some irreversible Processes, (a) One of the best examples of an intrinsically
irreversible process is ... The process is then irreversible by definition. ..."
8. The Chemistry of Colloids by Richard Zsigmondy, Ellwood Barker Spear, John Foote Norton (1917)
"Differences Between Solutions of irreversible Colloids and those of Crystalloids
The preparation of irreversible hydrosols indicates that they differ in ..."
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