Associations to the word «Irreversible»

Wiktionary

IRREVERSIBLE, adjective. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
IRREVERSIBLE, adjective. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
IRREVERSIBLE, adjective. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

Dictionary definition

IRREVERSIBLE, adjective. Incapable of being reversed; "irreversible momentum toward revolution".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky