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irreversible process

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Noun1.irreversible process - any process that is not reversible
physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
reversible process - any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed


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Sgreccia pointed out in contrast to statements by Cardinal Martini, is "precisely the beginning of an individual life and leads to an irreversible process towards successive development, containing already at that point a unique [genetic] patrimony.
The CWC defines destruction of chemical weapons as an essentially irreversible process," says the GAO.
While agreeing that integration of the services of the Armed Forces into a single mechanism is undoubtedly an important, timely, and irreversible process certain theoreticians are inclined to criticize it.
 
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