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irreversible.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.

12 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜː.sə.bəl/UK/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɝ.sə.bəl/US
  1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.

    not-comparable
    an irreversible engine
  2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.

    not-comparable
    an irreversible sentence or decree
  3. Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Latin ir- English ir- English reversible English irreversible From ir- + reversible.

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