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A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
Merab Mamardashvili

Meaning of "irreversible" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IRREVERSIBLE

irreversible  [ˌɪrɪˈvɜːsəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRREVERSIBLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irreversible is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IRREVERSIBLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of irreversible in the English dictionary

The first definition of irreversible in the dictionary is not able to be reversed. Other definition of irreversible is not able to be revoked or repealed; irrevocable. Irreversible is also capable of changing or producing a change in one direction only.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRREVERSIBLE


amerceable
əˈmɜːsəbəl
conversable
kənˈvɜːsəbəl
disbursable
dɪsˈbɜːsəbəl
forcible
ˈfɔːsəbəl
incoercible
ˌɪnkəʊˈɜːsəbəl
inconversable
ˌɪnkənˈvɜːsəbəl
inducible
ɪnˈdjuːsəbəl
leasable
ˈliːsəbəl
passable
ˈpɑːsəbəl
perceable
ˈpɜːsəbəl
reducible
rɪˈdjuːsəbəl
reimbursable
ˌriːɪmˈbɜːsəbəl
releasable
rɪˈliːsəbəl
reversible
rɪˈvɜːsəbəl
semisubmersible
ˌsɛmɪsəbˈmɜːsəbəl
submersible
səbˈmɜːsəbəl
traversable
trəˈvɜːsəbəl
unconversable
ˌʌnkənˈvɜːsəbəl
unsurpassable
ˌʌnsəˈpɑːsəbəl
untraversable
ˌʌntrəˈvɜːsəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRREVERSIBLE

irresuscitable
irresuscitably
irretention
irretentive
irretentiveness
irretrievability
irretrievable
irretrievableness
irretrievably
irreverence
irreverent
irreverential
irreverently
irreversibility
irreversibleness
irreversibly
irrevocability
irrevocable
irrevocableness
irrevocably

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRREVERSIBLE

accessible
admissible
collapsible
compatible
comprehensible
divisible
extensible
feasible
fusible
impossible
inaccessible
incomprehensible
invisible
irresponsible
ostensible
permissible
plausible
possible
responsible
sensible
visible

Synonyms and antonyms of irreversible in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IRREVERSIBLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «irreversible» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of irreversible

Translation of «irreversible» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRREVERSIBLE

Find out the translation of irreversible to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of irreversible from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «irreversible» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不可逆转的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

irreversible
570 millions of speakers

English

irreversible
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपरिवर्तनीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لا رجعة فيه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

необратимым
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

irreversível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপরিবর্তনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

irréversible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat dipulihkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nicht rückgängig zu machen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

元に戻せない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

되돌릴 수 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Irreversible
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thể đảo ngược
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்றமுடியாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपरिवर्तनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dönülemez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

irreversibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieodwracalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

незворотнім
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ireversibil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μη αναστρέψιμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onomkeerbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irreversibel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

irreversible
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of irreversible

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRREVERSIBLE»

The term «irreversible» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.473 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRREVERSIBLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «irreversible» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «irreversible» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about irreversible

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10 QUOTES WITH «IRREVERSIBLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word irreversible.
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Sean M. Carroll
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
2
Jean Charest
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
3
Jason Epstein
The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
4
James E. Faust
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
5
Michel Houellebecq
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
6
Valerie Jarrett
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
7
Vinod Khosla
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
8
Ivan Krastev
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
9
Gary Larson
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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Merab Mamardashvili
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRREVERSIBLE»

Discover the use of irreversible in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irreversible and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Irreversible
Every day seems perfect to Kitty, but what she doesn't know is that a villain has looped her reality-and only the Wire Crossers and the handsome time-anomaly specialist Q CA save her.
Liz Maverick, 2008
2
Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics
This is the 4th edition of the highly acclaimed monograph on Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics, a theory that goes beyond the classical theory of irreversible processes.
David Jou, José Casas-Vázquez, Georgy Lebon, 2010
3
Irreversible Electroporation
This is a brief introduction to the emerging field of irreversible electroporation in medicine.
Boris Rubinsky, 2009
4
Irreversible Decisions under Uncertainty: Optimal Stopping ...
In this book, the authors present an alternative approach to optimal stopping problems. The basic ideas and techniques of the approach can be explained much simpler than the standard methods in the literature on optimal stopping problems.
Svetlana Boyarchenko, Sergei Levendorskii, 2007
5
China Inside Out: 10 Irreversible Trends Reshaping China and ...
Bill Dodson presents the stories of average Chinese workers, along with interviews with experts interlaced with his own experiences.
Bill Dodson, 2011
6
Generalized Thermodynamics: Thermodynamics of Irreversible ...
The tool to develop this thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes are the generalized thermodynamics, which also extends the classical hydrodynamics of Navier, Stokes and Fourier to nonlinear irreversible processes.
Byung Chan Eu, 2002
7
Irreversible Quantum Dynamics
The idea of editing the present volume in the Lecture Notes in Physics series arosewhileorganizingthe“ConferenceonIrreversibleQuantumDynamics”that took place at The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, ...
Fabio Benatti, Roberto Floreanini, 2003
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Treatise on Irreversible and Statistical Thermodynamics: An ...
Extensively revised edition of a much-respected work examines thermodynamics of irreversible processes, general principles of statistical thermodynamics, assemblies of noninteracting structureless particles, and statistical theory. 1966 ...
Wolfgang Yourgrau, Alwyn van der Merwe, Gough Raw, 2013
9
Kinetic Theory and Irreversible Thermodynamics
The results of his investigation, which can be found in this work, are that irreversible thermodynamics and kinetic theory of matter are not separable especially for nonlinear irreversible processes occurring in systems removed far from ...
Byung Chan Eu, 1992
10
Irreversible thermodynamics: theory and applications
Irreversible thermodynamics is an increasingly important tool in a number of disciplines and this volume will provide an ideal int
Katrine Seip Førland, Tormod Førland, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRREVERSIBLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term irreversible is used in the context of the following news items.
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When They Mattered: The irreversible fall of Real Madrid | Fusion
When They Mattered: The irreversible fall of Real Madrid. by Leander Schaerlaeckens | July 17, 2015 4:24 PM. Getty/Michael Regan. July 17, 2015 4:24 PM ... «Fusion, Jul 15»
2
Can we still avert irreversible ice sheet melt? - Antarctic and Ice - Ice …
A question I return to often is whether anything we do to reduce emissions from now onwards – given that huge damage has already been ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
3
U-turn of the euro could be an exit threat after Greece - The Globe …
... the effective leader of the euro zone and alleged champion of European integration, no longer thinks the euro is irreversible, the currency ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
4
Deal puts Iran on irreversible nuclear path | HeraldNet.com …
When you write a column, as did I two weeks ago, headlined “The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history,” you don't expect to revisit the ... «HeraldNet, Jul 15»
5
Solar-powered plane stuck in Hawaii until 2016 because of …
... journey around the world, the 5-day flight to Hawaii from Japan, the solar plane's batteries overheated and sustained "irreversible" damage. «Treehugger, Jul 15»
6
Solar Impulse Plane Grounded in Hawaii by 'Irreversible' Battery …
Solar Impulse 2 suffered "irreversible" battery damage due to overheating during a non-stop, five-day flight to Kalaeloa from Nagoya, Japan, ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»
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Notable Quotables: One Week = Irreversible Lefty 'Transformation'
Notable Quotables: One Week = Irreversible Lefty 'Transformation'. By Rich Noyes | July 13, 2015 | 8:52 AM EDT. Share it Tweet it. 0. shares. Now online: the ... «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
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In Transit: Is O'Hare's noisy new flight path irreversible?
Jets are a constant presence on Hillside Drive in Bensenville. Residents say landings are even louder than departures from O'Hare ... «Chicago Daily Herald, Jul 15»
9
Solar Impulse grounded following 'irreversible' battery damage
The record-breaking Solar Impulse team has been grounded in Hawaii following "irreversible" damage to the plane's batteries. «pv magazine, Jul 15»
10
Less Intensive Chemo Avoids Irreversible Side Effects In Child Cancer
Children with a rare type of cancer called Wilms' tumor who are at low risk of relapsing can now be given less intensive treatment, avoiding a ... «Science 2.0, Jul 15»

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