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irreversibly

irreversibly adverb: in an irreversible manner.

Adverb

irreversibly (comparative more irreversibly, superlative most irreversibly)

  1. In an irreversible manner.
    • But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 112
    • We also perform IR-VIS absorbance measurements and find that the results suggest that during irradiation some of the dye molecules form dimers and trimers and that the polymer host is irreversibly damaged by photooxidation and Norrish type I photocleavage.2015, Benjamin R. Anderson, Ray Gunawidjaja, Hergen Eilers, “Photodegradation and self-healing in a Rhodamine 6G dye and Y₂O₃ nanoparticle-doped polyurethane random laser”, in App. Phys. B, volumes...

Antonyms of irreversibly

Forms of irreversibly

comparativemore irreversibly
superlativemost irreversibly

Origin of irreversibly

From irreversible + -ly or ir- + reversibly.

Questions about irreversibly

What does irreversibly mean?
Irreversibly means in an irreversible manner.
What part of speech is irreversibly?
Irreversibly is an adverb.

Words near irreversibly in the dictionary

  1. irreversable
  2. irreversibilities
  3. irreversibility
  4. irreversible
  5. irreversibleness
  6. irreversibly
  7. irreviewable
  8. irrevisability
  9. irrevisable
  10. irrevivable
  11. irrevocabilities

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