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time-reverses

time-reverses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of time-reverse.

Meaning of time-reverse

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

Questions about time-reverses

What is time-reverses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Time-reverses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of time-reverse.

Words near time-reverses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-reverses (page history and authors); time-reverse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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