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REVERSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reversible mean?
• REVERSIBLE (noun)
The noun REVERSIBLE has 1 sense:
1. a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing)
Familiarity information: REVERSIBLE used as a noun is very rare.
• REVERSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective REVERSIBLE has 4 senses:
1. capable of reversing or being reversed
2. capable of being reversed or used with either side out
3. capable of being reversed
4. capable of assuming or producing either of two states
Familiarity information: REVERSIBLE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("reversible" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Derivation:
reversible (capable of being reversed or used with either side out)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of reversing or being reversed
Context example:
reversible hypertension
Similar:
correctable (capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent)
rechargeable (capable of being recharged)
Antonym:
irreversible (incapable of being reversed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of being reversed or used with either side out
Synonyms:
reversible; two-sided
Context example:
a reversible jacket
Similar:
double-faced ((of fabrics) having faces on both sides)
Antonym:
nonreversible (not reversible or capable of having either side out)
Derivation:
reverse (turn inside out or upside down)
reversible (a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Capable of being reversed
Context example:
a reversible decision is one that can be appealed or vacated
Similar:
revocable; revokable (capable of being revoked or annulled)
Derivation:
reverse (change to the contrary)
reverse (cancel officially)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Capable of assuming or producing either of two states
Context example:
a reversible cell
Similar:
changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Derivation:
reversibility (the quality of being reversible in either direction)
Context examples
A competitive and reversible histamine H2-receptor antagonist with antacid activity.
(Nizatidine, NCI Thesaurus)
Topoisomerase I is an enzyme that mediates reversible single-strand breaks in DNA during DNA replication.
(Belotecan hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
They found that this reversible process was tightly controlled by enzymes which chemically alter FUS making it able or unable to form droplets and gels.
(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)
Usually, it is a reversible condition.
(Delirium, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Belotecan inhibits the action of topoisomerase I, an enzyme that produces reversible single-strand breaks in DNA during DNA replication.
(Pegylated Liposomal Belotecan, NCI Thesaurus)
Mupirocin inhibits bacterial protein synthesis by specific reversible binding to bacterial isoleucyl tRNA synthase.
(Mupirocin, NCI Thesaurus)
This results in a transient and reversible loss of sensation in a localized area of the body.
(Dyclonine, NCI Thesaurus)
It refers to amino acid residue within a peptide that accepts fatty acid, palmitoyl group (C15H31-)as one of the reversible post-translational modifications.
(Palmitic Acylation Site, NCI Thesaurus)
This eventually leads to a reversible loss of sensation.
(Extended Release Bupivacaine Hydrochloride Resorbable Matrix Formulation, NCI Thesaurus)
An orally bioavailable, small-molecule, multitargeted reversible tyrosine kinase inhibitor with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Multitargeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor JNJ-26483327, NCI Thesaurus)
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