IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irreversible process mean? 

• IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS (noun)
  The noun IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. any process that is not reversible

  Familiarity information: IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS (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)