reversibility

  • 11reversibility — See reversible. * * * ▪ thermodynamics       in thermodynamics, a characteristic of certain processes (changes of a system from an initial state to a final state spontaneously or as a result of interactions with other systems) that can be… …

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  • 12reversibility — noun The property of being reversible …

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  • 13reversibility — rɪ vÉœrsÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ / vɜːs n. ability to be overturned; ability to be revoked; ability to be performed forwards or backwards …

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  • 14reversibility — re·vers·ibil·i·ty …

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  • 15reversibility — See: reversible …

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  • 16reversibility — noun the quality of being reversible in either direction (Freq. 1) • Ant: ↑irreversibility • Derivationally related forms: ↑reversible • Hypernyms: ↑changeableness, ↑changeability …

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  • 17reversibility principle — noun : a principle in optics: if light travels from a point A to a point B over a particular path, it can travel over the same path from B to A …

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  • 18Microscopic reversibility — The principle of Microscopic reversibility in physics and chemistry is twofold: First, it states that the microscopic detailed dynamics of particles and fields is time reversible because the microscopic equations of motion are symmetric with… …

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  • 19Time reversibility — is an attribute of some stochastic processes and some deterministic processes.If a stochastic process is time reversible, then it is not possible to determine, given the states at a number of points in time after running the stochastic process,… …

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  • 20microscopic reversibility, principle of — ▪ physics       principle formulated about 1924 by the American scientist Richard C. Tolman that provides a dynamic description of an equilibrium condition. Equilibrium is a state in which no net change in some given property of a physical system …

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