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Reversible   /rɪvˈərsəbəl/  /rivˈərsəbəl/   Listen
Reversible

adjective
1.
Capable of reversing or being reversed.
2.
Capable of being reversed or used with either side out.  Synonym: two-sided.
3.
Capable of being reversed.
4.
Capable of assuming or producing either of two states.  "A reversible cell"



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"Reversible" Quotes from Famous Books



... disgruntled, barefooted group before the camera. The women were dressed in the customary tight bodices, heavy woolen skirts, and voluminous petticoats of the plateau. Over their shoulders were pinned heavy woolen shawls, woven on hand looms. On their heads were reversible "pancake" hats made of straw, covered on the wet-weather side with coarse woolen stuff and on the fair-weather side with tinsel and velveteen. In accordance with local custom, tassels and fringes hung down on both sides. It is said that the first Inca ...
— Inca Land - Explorations in the Highlands of Peru • Hiram Bingham
... l'oeuf de recevoir la modification reversible c'est qu'etant constitue autrement que les cellules differenciees de l'organisme il est influence autrement qu'elles par les memes causes perturbatrices. Mais est-il impossible que malgre la difference de constitution physico-chimiques ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... infringing our patents falsely claim premiums and superiority over Dederick's Reversible Perpetual Press. Now, therefore, I offer and guarantee ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various


Words linked to "Reversible" :   revokable, changeful, nonreversible, double-faced, reversibility, garment, irreversible, natural philosophy, rechargeable, chemical science, correctable, changeable, reverse, physics, chemistry, revocable, two-sided


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