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 Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.