Sentence examples for nonreversible from inspiring English sources

In the past this was considered too high for single-stage pumps, and the use of separate multistage, nonreversible units was required.

Nonreversible cloth with two or more sets of warp and sometimes of weft can also be produced.

Onsager also was able to formulate a general mathematical expression about the behaviour of nonreversible chemical processes that has been described as the "fourth law of thermodynamics".

Indeed, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, said in recent Congressional testimony that increased productivity was helping to restrain inflationary pressures, and that much of the gain in productivity could be nonreversible.

Last summer, the U.C.L.A. group, working with computer architects and chemists at Hewlett-Packard, reported that it had developed a nonreversible switch based on a molecule known as rotaxane.

"We thought that cirrhosis was nonreversible," he said.