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English
Etymology
From irreversible + -ly or ir- + reversibly.
Adverb
irreversibly (comparative more irreversibly, superlative most irreversibly)
- In an irreversible manner.
1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 112:But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.
2015, Benjamin R. Anderson, Ray Gunawidjaja, Hergen Eilers, “Photodegradation and self-healing in a Rhodamine 6G dye and Y
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nanoparticle-doped polyurethane random laser”, in App. Phys. B, volumes 1-12, pages 1–12:We also perform IR-VIS absorbance measurements and find that the results suggest that during irradiation some of the dye molecules form dimers and trimers and that the polymer host is irreversibly damaged by photooxidation and Norrish type I photocleavage.
Antonyms
Translations
In an irreversible manner
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “irreversibly”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “irreversibly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.