reversiblyadv.
/rᵻˈvəːsᵻbli/, U.S. /rəˈvərsəbli/, /riˈvərsəbli/ rare before 20th cent.
In a way that can be reversed; so that a reverse procedure can be carried out; (Science) in such a way that a process or reaction can occur in the reverse direction.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [adverb] > in reversible manner
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1646 H. Hammond Of Sinnes (new ed.) 50 His state were a long time but reversibly ill.
1777 R. Robinson in R. Robinson tr. J. Saurin Serm. III. Pref. p. xxxv That he made the donation absolutely or conditionally, before the fall or after it, reversibly or irrevocably, the proposition doth not affirm.
1889 Cent. Dict. Reversibly, in a reversible manner.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) iv. 44 In any isothermal process the maximum amount of external work is obtained when the process is conducted reversibly.
1944 A. Szent-Györgyi Stud. on Muscle ii. 29 Actin..is capable of existing in two forms, in globular and fibrous form, which can be reversibly transformed into each other.
1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) iv. 68 The haem part of the molecule is an iron-containing porphyrin derivate..which binds reversibly to O2.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xiii. 266 The blood samples taken for HIV testing were reversibly anonymised, which meant that a code number was given to the inmate so that..he was not readily identified but the Crown was able to de-encrypt the results.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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