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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

不可逆的な

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fukagyaku-tekina

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Irreversible/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜːr.sə.bəl/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"それは不可逆的な結果をもたらした。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not able to be undone, altered, or reversed; permanent.

    "Climate change can cause irreversible damage to fragile ecosystems."
  2. 2

    In physics or chemistry, describing a thermodynamic process that cannot return a system to its initial state without external intervention.

    "The combustion of fuel is an irreversible chemical reaction."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin prefix 'in-' (not) combined with 'reversibilis', stemming from 'revertere' (to turn back). Entering Middle English via Old French in the late medieval period, the term evolved to denote any action, state, or chemical process that cannot be undone or reversed to its original condition.

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