irreversibly

irreversible | American Dictionary

irreversible
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌɪr·ɪˈvɜr·sə·bəl/
impossible to change or to return to a previous condition:
Technology has had an irreversible impact on society.

Examples of irreversible

irreversible
If we don't mend our ways, they say, climate change will soon be irreversible.
Evidently the physics of the closure problem is intimately bound up with irreversible relaxation effects.
Evidently, purely sectoral shocks in a multisector growth model with irreversible investment have important effects on the behavior of this economy.
It is essential to bear in mind that the limit induces a qualitative change in the system behaviour, with an irreversible loss of information.
Lifecourse transitions are not necessarily linear and irreversible, and parent-child livelihoods may remain critically inter-dependent even after children marry and leave home.
We present here examples of different degrees of impingement; nevertheless, for our purposes, an incorporated device requires a more-or-less permanent and irreversible level of impingement.
Statistical-mechanical theory of irreversible processes. i. general theory and simple applications to magnetic and conduction problems.
The overall degradation of the diffraction suggests that the reversible effects are also accompanied by gradual irreversible damage to the lattice.
Furthermore, the decentralization of power was increasingly not merely at the discretion of the central government; indeed, it became irreversible.
In these animals, clinical disease was frustrated, but paralysis was irreversible.
It caused an irreversible fracture among students, and preserved the traditional divisions within the political spectrum.
In some highly fragile environments, found most often in the tropics, soils may be highly vulnerable to rapid and irreversible degradation with inappropriate agricultural practices.
However, soil degradation is irreversible in some cases.
The gradual decrease in torque after 600 s is associated with irreversible shear degradation of the fluid sample.
According to the foregoing section, an effect is needed for absorption, which adds an irreversible element to the ideal collective cold fluid dynamics.
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