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What does irreversible mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word irreversible? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward.
  2. Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
  3. (thermodynamics) Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
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The disease involves scarring of the lung, which causes an irreversible loss of the tissue's ability to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream.
He allegedly was over sedated and consequently suffered cardiopulmonary arrest with an ensuing irreversible anoxic brain injury.
Water putty, epoxies, construction glue and silicone sealants can cause irreversible damage to objects, he warned.
Then the president assured corporate America that his administration's repudiation of liberal reformism was irreversible.
The result is an irreversible and progressive process of involution as death approaches.
She suggests that this approach is a theoretically consistent way to explain the cause of a wide variety of irreversible phenomenon.

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