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REVERSIBILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reversibility mean?
• REVERSIBILITY (noun)
The noun REVERSIBILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being reversible in either direction
Familiarity information: REVERSIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being reversible in either direction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("reversibility" is a kind of...):
changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)
Antonym:
irreversibility (the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed))
Derivation:
reversible (capable of assuming or producing either of two states)
Context examples
The new molten air batteries, by contrast, offer the best of both worlds: a combination of high storage capacity and reversibility.
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
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