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 Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne