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 Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats