different between irreversible vs irreversibility

English

Etymology

From ir- +? reversible.

Adjective

irreversible (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.

2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
3. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

Related terms

• irreversibility

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From ir- +? reversible.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /i.r?.v???si.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i.r?.b?r?si.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.re.ve??si.ble/

Adjective

irreversible (masculine and feminine plural irreversibles)

1. irreversible

Further reading

• “irreversible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

irreversible

1. definite singular/plural of irreversibel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

irreversible

1. definite singular/plural of irreversibel

Spanish

Etymology

From ir- +? reversible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /irebe??sible/, [i.re.??e??si.??le]

Adjective

irreversible (plural irreversibles)

1. irreversible (not able to be reversed)

   Antonym: reversible

Further reading

• “irreversible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

irreversible +? -ity

Noun

irreversibility (usually uncountable, plural irreversibilities)

1. The quality of being irreversible; the lack of an ability to be reversed.
   • 1806, Samuel Barnard, The Essence, Spirituality, and Glorious Issue, of the Religion of Christ Jesus, to All God's Chosen, W. Nicholson, page 279,

     Now if the irreversibility of God's gifts to his people, be considered, what joy for those who feel within a wicked heart.

   • 1911, Power, Hill Pub. Co., page 171,

     But because of irreversibilities in the engine, all of this theoretical conversion is not realized and some internal energy remains in the steam exhausting from the engine.

   • 2007, Mark Currie, About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time, Edinburgh University Press, ?ISBN, page 103,

     Paul Horwich, for example, in Asymmetries in Time, includes the laws of thermodynamics in a list of ten temporally asymmetric phenomena which operate in our conceptual system. Seen in this way, where the irreversibility of time is inseparable from rationality itself, the argument against backwards time tends to be expressed in terms of consequences, or the fear that time reversal is paramount to irrationality.

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