irreversibility
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irreversibilities
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“We fear the irreversibility of leaving and the opportunity cost of that, but we completely overlook the irreversibility of staying and the opportunity costs that are associated with that,” Meretab says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Entropy is a measure of irreversibility and disorder and is central in thermodynamics.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
This is distinct from how the term is often used, namely with the idea that it involves on a global scale "irreversibility, which has to do with the impossibility of returning to its previous state."
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
The irreversibility of fusion-and-mixing events makes them particularly well-suited for resolving relationships in the animal tree that have resisted more conventional methods.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023
This irreversibility is due to the work required to evolve bubbles of gas at the surface of bright platinum plates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
He added that the paper focuses only on mammals, so future investigations could look at whether the same irreversibilities also hold in other tetrapod lineages.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 17, 2023
Moreover, if any doubt remains as to whether Kant really confuses the two irreversibilities or necessities of succession, it is removed by the last paragraph of the passage quoted.
From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard
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