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/rɪvˈərsəbəl/ /rivˈərsəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Reversible adj.

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.

Reversible lock, a lock that may be applied to a door opening in either direction, or hinged to either jamb.

Reversible process. See under Process.

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Etymology of 'Reversible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reversible" Quotes from Famous Books

... walked slowly across the room still leaning on the Abbe's arm. "We can reduce our very selves to the bodiless condition of a dream if we take sufficient pains first to advance a theory, and then to wear it threadbare. Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning,—nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of ...

— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

... itself, and what it can do. It may be well to point out at the outset what has occasionally been stated, but which has not received the philosophical attention it deserves—namely, that electrical phenomena are reversible; that is, any kind of a physical process which is capable of producing electricity, electricity is itself able to produce. Thus to name a few: If mechanical motion develops electricity, electricity will produce mechanical ...

— The Machinery of the Universe - Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena • Amos Emerson Dolbear

... in French grey, the former being decorated with very handsome paintings illustrative of Oriental views and scenery. Richly-upholstered divans occupied the spaces along the bulkheads between the several state-room doors; a long table of polished mahogany, having sofa seats with reversible backs on each side of it, stretched down the centre of the saloon, with another and shorter table flanking it athwartships at the after-end; a buffet loaded with richly-cut decanters and glass, backed up by a large gilt-framed mirror, occupied the whole space against ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... an illustration of the reversible or double-folding screen hinge. Half the thickness of this hinge is let into each wing of the draught screen, allowing the screen to be folded either way. The hinge is costly, but effective ...

— Woodwork Joints - How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. • William Fairham

... is attached a gymbal carrying a reversible circular frame with a plane mirror on one side and a concave mirror on the other (Fig. 40, g). The plane mirror is that usually employed, but occasionally, as for example when using low powers and with the condenser racked down and thrown out of ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

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