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Definition of Reversible process

1. Noun. Any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed.

Medical Definition of Reversible process

1. A cyclic process carried out by a hypothetical pathway, which leaves the universe exactly the same as it was before the process, no real process is reversible. For chemical systems we consider a process at equilibrium to be reversible. Examples are phase transitions that occur at the melting point or boiling point temperatures at 1 atm pressure. (09 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Reversible process

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"The characteristics of a reversible process are therefore as follows: (a) A substance which undergoes a reversible process must be under varying external ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"A closed system can not perform a reversible process. (Z>) A substance as it undergoes a reversible process is at each instant in a state of thermal ..."

3. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1904)
"Therefore the value of the sum (2,//// T) extended over any reversible process leading from state A to state B of a substance may be used as a measure of ..."

4. Elements of Physics by Edward Leamington Nichols, Ernest John Andrews, William Suddards Franklin, Howard Newell Howland (1898)
"reversible process. — Consider a material system in a state of equilibrium under the action of ... Such a thermal process is called a reversible process. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"If the densities of the two gases are different, we can effect their partial separation by a reversible process which does not involve any of the actions ..."

6. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1896)
"Such a process is called a reversible process. reversible processes are brought about only by the action of external influences on a substance under ..."

7. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1920)
"In a reversible process the heat taken in from the surroundings during the ... A reversible process is essentially one in which the change takes place in a ..."

8. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... not available in connexion with the condenser at T» is therefore To/dH/T. This quantity must be the same whatever reversible process is employed: thus, ..."

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