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Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

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  1. a. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
  2. a. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree.
  3. adj. incapable of being reversed
  4. 1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine. 2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree. This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal, so neither is it final and irreversible. Jortin. Syn. -- Irrevocable; irrepealable; unchangeable.
  5. j:100 a. incapable of being reversed