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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
  • Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.
  • thermodynamics Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

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