irreversible process

Examples

• All

• So the work is less for the irreversible process than the reversible process.

• Significant irreversible processes occur during compression and expansion in a conventional refrigeration cycle because of turbulent flow and friction between the gas and the pipes.

  Academic text (1994)

• Such an irreversible process would have a truly revolutionary effect on the United States.

  Academic text (2002)

• Illegal or forced immigration tends to prove to be an irreversible process.

  Blog text (16)

• Meanwhile, decentralization is an irreversible process, made more complex by the growth of the NETS previously described.

  Academic text (1991)

• Because you've done an irreversible process, you've wasted a lot of energy in doing that process.

• Although not completely eliminated as a survival strategy, the natural economy was increasingly displaced by commodity production, and it seems that it is an irreversible process.

  Academic text (1999)

• Printing, the revolutionaries agreed, had set in motion an irreversible process that was destined to end a royal monopoly of power as well as a priestly monopoly of learning.

  Academic text (1995)

• Insofar as state building was a focus of international concern, it was equated in the 1950s with modernization, in the 1960s and 1970s with development, and in the 1980s and 1990s with democratization—all of which were considered essentially irreversible processes.

  Academic text (2004)

• Once a species goes extinct, it represents an irreversible process that cannot be undone.

Synonyms

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irreversibility

vsirreversible process

1 8.4

Cannot be changed back to how it was

is used mainly for technical processes and changes that cannot be undone

I

immutability

vsirreversible process

1 8.5

A state of not changing over time

applies to specific processes and changes, not just a stable unchanging state

I

irrevocability

vsirreversible process

1 9.9

The state of being impossible to change or take back

focuses on actual processes and physical changes rather than abstract finality

I

irretrievability

vsirreversible process

1 9.9

A situation where you cannot get something back, like deleted files or lost memories

applies to processes that cannot be undone, not only items that are lost

U

unalterability

vsirreversible process

9.6

A state in which something like a rule cannot change

is used for technical process changes rather than any general resistance to change

U

unchangeability

vsirreversible process

7.4

The quality of not changing over time

is specific to a process that cannot be reversed, not gradual sameness

U

unchangeableness

vsirreversible process

8.6

A state of staying the same over time without becoming different

focuses on processes that cannot be undone rather than static permanence

I

immutableness

vsirreversible process

9.9

A state of not changing over time

shows that the term applies to processes that cannot be undone in technical contexts

Antonyms

R

reversible process

• Specialized

6.0

A process where a system returns to how it started when the steps are done backward

How Reversible

reversible process

• Specialized

6.0

temporary

557 3.0

permanent

650 3.2

irreversible process

• Specialized

1 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology