Reversible
adjective
Able to be changed back to what it was before.
The process is not reversible, once you have started, you cannot go back.
Often appears as...
- reversible process
- reversible changes
adjective
Able to be worn with either side out.
He bought a reversible jacket, so he could wear it either way.
Often appears as...
- reversible jacket
- reversible shirt
adjective
In chemistry, a reaction that can proceed in either direction.
In a reversible reaction, the products can react to produce the original reactants again.
Often appears as...
- reversible reaction
- reversible process
adjective
Able to be changed back to what it was before.
The process is not reversible, once you have started, you cannot go back.
Often appears as...
- reversible process
- reversible changes
adjective
Able to be worn with either side out.
He bought a reversible jacket, so he could wear it either way.
Often appears as...
- reversible jacket
- reversible shirt
adjective
In chemistry, a reaction that can proceed in either direction.
In a reversible reaction, the products can react to produce the original reactants again.
Often appears as...
- reversible reaction
- reversible process
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Irreversible Caution
Understand when something cannot be reversed, using 'irreversible' clarifies the permanent nature.
Tattoos are mostly irreversible, so choose carefully.
Pro Tip 2/3Opposite Actions
Consider actions or changes that can be undone or counteracted when using 'reversible'.
Most software changes are reversible through the 'Undo' feature.
Pro Tip 3/3Decision Making
In discussions about choices, 'reversible' highlights the possibility of change.
Luckily, the policy was reversible and they reverted to the old system.
Pro Tip 1/3Irreversible Caution
Understand when something cannot be reversed, using 'irreversible' clarifies the permanent nature.
Tattoos are mostly irreversible, so choose carefully.
Pro Tip 2/3Opposite Actions
Consider actions or changes that can be undone or counteracted when using 'reversible'.
Most software changes are reversible through the 'Undo' feature.
Pro Tip 3/3Decision Making
In discussions about choices, 'reversible' highlights the possibility of change.
Luckily, the policy was reversible and they reverted to the old system.
Pro Tip 1/3Irreversible Caution
Understand when something cannot be reversed, using 'irreversible' clarifies the permanent nature.
Tattoos are mostly irreversible, so choose carefully.
Pro Tip 2/3Opposite Actions
Consider actions or changes that can be undone or counteracted when using 'reversible'.
Most software changes are reversible through the 'Undo' feature.
Pro Tip 3/3Decision Making
In discussions about choices, 'reversible' highlights the possibility of change.
Luckily, the policy was reversible and they reverted to the old system.
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At what moment are you...
So it would seem that all our various medical miracles can delay or prevent death but not reverse it. But that's not as simple as it sounds because constant advancements in technology and medicine have resulted in diagnoses such as coma, describing potentially reversible conditions,
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Dean Ornish: The world's...
people -- not only in this country, but also worldwide -- than everything else combined, and yet it's completely preventable for almost everybody. It's not only preventable; it's actually reversible. And for the last almost 29 years, we've been able to show that by simply changing
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The new urgency of...
but they do say, "Let's try some stuff." If an experiment can be reversible, if it's plausible in the first place, if there's reason to think that it might work, we actually owe it to the future health of humanity to try at least some types of tests to see what could work.
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Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
ostrich not having barbs on the wing so they can't fly while the owl with theory there their small body weight to their enormous wingspan most owls actually have a reversible zip on the wing on the feathers which mean that it doesn't cause that downward friction motion if
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Why you should define...
if I took the trip, I was risking a one to three of temporary and reversible pain for an eight to 10 of positive, life-changing impact that could be a semi-permanent. So I took the trip. None of the disasters came to pass. There were some hiccups, sure.
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Why we need to end the...
to learn that helping vulnerable children and overcoming poverty is not as simple as we've all been led to believe it should be. But thankfully, there is a solution. These problems are reversible and preventable, and when we know better,
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How batteries work -...
But any battery has a finite supply of metal, and once most of it has oxidized, the battery dies. So rechargeable batteries give us a temporary solution to this problem by making the oxidation-reduction process reversible.
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How we must respond to...
in our lifetimes. But bringing the economy back and doing money, that's more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life. And so, we're going to take the pain in the economic dimension, huge pain,
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How a handful of fishing...
is through overfishing. Every year, we fish harder, deeper, further afield. Every year, we chase ever fewer fish. Yet the crisis of overfishing is a great unnecessary, avoidable and entirely reversible,
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12 sustainable design...
basically what's happening in a fuel cell, in the anode of a fuel cell and in a reversible fuel cell. In our fuel cells, we do it with platinum; life does it with a very, very common iron.
Video examples
At what moment are you...
So it would seem that all our various medical miracles can delay or prevent death but not reverse it. But that's not as simple as it sounds because constant advancements in technology and medicine have resulted in diagnoses such as coma, describing potentially reversible conditions,
Video examples
Dean Ornish: The world's...
people -- not only in this country, but also worldwide -- than everything else combined, and yet it's completely preventable for almost everybody. It's not only preventable; it's actually reversible. And for the last almost 29 years, we've been able to show that by simply changing
Video examples
The new urgency of...
but they do say, "Let's try some stuff." If an experiment can be reversible, if it's plausible in the first place, if there's reason to think that it might work, we actually owe it to the future health of humanity to try at least some types of tests to see what could work.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
ostrich not having barbs on the wing so they can't fly while the owl with theory there their small body weight to their enormous wingspan most owls actually have a reversible zip on the wing on the feathers which mean that it doesn't cause that downward friction motion if
Video examples
Why you should define...
if I took the trip, I was risking a one to three of temporary and reversible pain for an eight to 10 of positive, life-changing impact that could be a semi-permanent. So I took the trip. None of the disasters came to pass. There were some hiccups, sure.
Video examples
Why we need to end the...
to learn that helping vulnerable children and overcoming poverty is not as simple as we've all been led to believe it should be. But thankfully, there is a solution. These problems are reversible and preventable, and when we know better,
Video examples
How batteries work -...
But any battery has a finite supply of metal, and once most of it has oxidized, the battery dies. So rechargeable batteries give us a temporary solution to this problem by making the oxidation-reduction process reversible.
Video examples
How we must respond to...
in our lifetimes. But bringing the economy back and doing money, that's more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life. And so, we're going to take the pain in the economic dimension, huge pain,
Video examples
How a handful of fishing...
is through overfishing. Every year, we fish harder, deeper, further afield. Every year, we chase ever fewer fish. Yet the crisis of overfishing is a great unnecessary, avoidable and entirely reversible,
Video examples
12 sustainable design...
basically what's happening in a fuel cell, in the anode of a fuel cell and in a reversible fuel cell. In our fuel cells, we do it with platinum; life does it with a very, very common iron.
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J. Cole
American Musician
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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Hugh Evans
Australian Leader
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
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Bret Stephens
American Journalist
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.
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Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian Journalist
We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.
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Lars Onsager
Norwegian Scientist
The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
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Silvan Shalom
Israeli Politician
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
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J. Cole
American Musician
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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Hugh Evans
Australian Leader
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
Quote examples
Bret Stephens
American Journalist
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.
Quote examples
Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian Journalist
We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.
Quote examples
Lars Onsager
Norwegian Scientist
The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
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Silvan Shalom
Israeli Politician
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
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