Definition of Reversibility

1. Noun. The quality of being reversible in either direction.

Generic synonyms: Changeability, Changeableness
Antonyms: Irreversibility
Derivative terms: Reversible

Definition of Reversibility

1. n. The quality of being reversible.

Definition of Reversibility

1. Noun. The property of being reversible. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reversibility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reversibility

reversed anaphylaxis
reversed paradoxical pulse
reversed peristalsis
reversed phase chromatography
reversed reciprocal rhythm
reversed shunt
reversedly
reverseless
reversely
reverser
reversers
reverses
reversi
reversibilities
reversibility (current term)
reversible
reversible calcinosis
reversible colloid
reversible decortication
reversible hydrocolloid
reversible hydrogenase
reversible process
reversible reaction
reversible shock
reversibles
reversibly
reversine
reversing
reversing thermometer

Literary usage of Reversibility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blunting the Sword: Budget Policy & the Future of Defense by Dennis S. Ippolito (1994)
"Because nondefense budget policies are so constraining, reversibility in defense spending will be extremely limited. lf potential reversibility were easier, ..."

2. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"This is a simple instance of a general law of optics known as the principle of the reversibility of the light path. Experiment shows that the same rule ..."

3. Commercial Economy in Steam and Other Thermal Power-plants: As Dependent by Robert Henry Smith (1905)
"The conditions of life require rapid work, so that the sooner we give up worshipping reversibility as a fetish worthy to be aspired after and approximated ..."

4. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles Edward Marshall (1911)
"The most promising explanation at present is based upon the reversibility of enzymic action. reversibility OP ENZYMIC ACTION. ..."

5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"... while the second amino group has reacted with aldehyde group of the next ff^anne complex. HC JACKSON. Concerning the reversibility of Bacterial Toxins. ..."

6. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles Edward Marshall (1911)
"The most promising explanation at present is based upon the reversibility of enzymic action. reversibility OF ENZYMIC ACTION. ..."

7. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles Edward Marshall (1911)
"The most promising explanation at present is based upon the reversibility of enzymic action. reversibility OF ENZYMIC ACTION. ..."

8. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1910)
"reversibility the criterion of perfection in a heat- engine. These results imply that reversibility, in the thermo- dynamic sense, is the criterion of what ..."

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