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photoreversible

photoreversible adjective: describing any compound or system that can exist in two forms, and can be changed from one to the other by the appropriate influence of light.

Adjective

photoreversible (not comparable)

  1. (physical) Describing any compound or system that can exist in two forms, and can be changed from one to the other by the appropriate influence of light

Origin of photoreversible

From photo- + reversible.

Questions about photoreversible

What does photoreversible mean?
Photoreversible means describing any compound or system that can exist in two forms, and can be changed from one to the other by the appropriate influence of light.
What part of speech is photoreversible?
Photoreversible is an adjective.

Words near photoreversible in the dictionary

  1. photoretinoscopes
  2. photoretinoscopy
  3. photoreversal
  4. photoreversed
  5. photoreversibility
  6. photoreversible
  7. photoreversion
  8. photoreversions
  9. photorheological
  10. photorhodopsin
  11. photos

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