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Definition of Irreversible process
1. Noun. Any process that is not reversible.
Medical Definition of Irreversible process
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Irreversible Process
Literary usage of Irreversible process
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Thermodynamics by George Alfred Goodenough (1920)
"A process which fails to meet these requirements in any particular is an irreversible
process. There are three essentially irreversible processes that ..."
2. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1920)
"The conductance of heat from a hot system to cold without the performance of any
external work is an irreversible process. That is to say, it is a matter of ..."
3. A Meteorological Treatise on the Circulation and Radiation in the by Frank Hagar Bigelow (1915)
"Ti = the temperature of the sink of the energy. The energy runs down from the
source to the sink. For the irreversible process, dS = -~r > 0. ..."
4. Heat and Thermodynamics by Francis M. Hartmann (1911)
"Such a process is called an irreversible process. Another example of an irreversible
process is that of the conversion of energy, in the form of mechanical ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A common illustration of an irreversible process is the expansion of a gas into a
... An irreversible process which permits a more complete experimental ..."
6. Thermodynamics and Chemistry, by F. H. MacDougall by Frank Henry Macdougall (1921)
"... entropy during the irreversible process in which the system went from A to B,
... from state A to state B represented any irreversible process whatever, ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In like manner the interdiffusion of two gases is in general an irreversible
process, for in order to separate the two gases the conditions must be very ..."
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