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time-reversing

time-reversing is the present participle 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-reversing

What is time-reversing the present participle of?
Time-reversing is the present participle of time-reverse.

Words near time-reversing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-reversing (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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