reversibility

[ ri-vur-suh-bil-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the ability to become the opposite in position, direction, order, or character:
The innovative new connector allows for simple field reversibility of the pump direction.
the ability to be restored or returned to a previous condition:
Benefits include the reversibility of the procedure should a major improvement in symptoms not be realized.
the ability to be worn or used with either side facing outward:
The reversibility of the jacket provides an opportunity to vary your look over the course of the day.

It remains doubtful, however, whether this reversibility can explain all the synthetic processes in the cell.

This leads me to the enunciation of a principle which underlies all optical phenomena—the principle of reversibility.

This property of reversibility is also shared by the process of Carnot.

The combination of invariability and reversibility in the Peirce pendulums was an innovation for relative determinations.

But even such reversibility of continuous series does not by itself establish coexistence.

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