IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)