irreversible

About 3.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.

   an irreversible engine

2. adjective Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.

   an irreversible sentence or decree

3. adjective Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.

Similar words

irrevokable irrevocable permanent irretrievable irremediable irreparable irredeemable incurable untreatable unstoppable

Often followed by

and damage processes process changes loss change brain thermodynamics

Word family

irreversibilities irreversibility irreversibly