REVERSIBLE PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reversible process mean? 

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

1. any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERSIBLE PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("reversible process" is a kind of...):

physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)

Antonym:

irreversible process (any process that is not reversible)

 Context examples 

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)