reversible
Speech parts
1. reversible - Noun
2. reversible - Adjective
3. reversible - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.
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So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.
The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
a reversible chemical reaction
a reversible cell
reversible hypertension