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IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any process that is not reversible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("irreversible process" is a kind of...):
physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)
Antonym:
reversible process (any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed)