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time-reverse

time-reverse verb: to subject something to a transformation in which the passage of time and all of its velocities are theorized to be reversed.

Verb

time-reverse (third-person singular simple present time-reverses, present participle time-reversing, simple past and past participle time-reversed)

  1. (transitive) To subject something to a transformation in which the passage of time and all of its velocities are theorized to be reversed.
    • It is compatible with the time-reversal noninvariance of the laws that the universe be such that the universe that consists of just its states at a time in reverse temporal order, without even time-reversing the states themselves, is a possible physical universe.1977, Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime, page 401
    • The records of the waveforms are then transmitted to a central server that time-reverses them and lets the time-reversed versions back-propagate into the location domain by numerical simulation.2017, Farhad Rachidi, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone (editors), Electromagnetic Time Reversal - Application to EMC and Power Systems

Forms of time-reverse

third-person singular presenttime-reverses
present participletime-reversing
past participletime-reversed
pasttime-reversed

Words formed from time-reverse

Questions about time-reverse

What does time-reverse mean?
Time-reverse means to subject something to a transformation in which the passage of time and all of its velocities are theorized to be reversed.
What part of speech is time-reverse?
Time-reverse is a verb.
What is the past tense of time-reverse?
The past tense of time-reverse is time-reversed.

Words near time-reverse in the dictionary

  1. time-policy
  2. time-poor
  3. time-preference theory of interest
  4. time-release
  5. time-resolved
  6. time-reverse
  7. time-reversed
  8. time-reverses
  9. time-reversing
  10. time-saver
  11. time-savers

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