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time-reverse en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To subject something to a transformation in which the passage of time and all of its velocities are theorized to be reversed.
    • The records of the waveforms are then transmitted to a central server that time-reverses them and lets the time-reversed versions back-propagate into the location domain by numerical simulation. 2017, Farhad Rachidi, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone (editors), Electromagnetic Time Reversal - Application to EMC and Power Systems:
    • It is compatible with the time-reversal noninvariance of the laws that the universe be such that the universe that consists of just its states at a time in reverse temporal order, without even time-reversing the states themselves, is a possible physical universe. 1977, Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime, page 401:
    • Time-reverse all motions and the three will return at the same instant to the starting point. 2020, Martin Gardner, Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements, page 134:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
time-reverses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
time-reversed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
time-reversed Tense=Past lexicographic
time-reversing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

time reversal