reversibility principle

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reversibility principle [ri‚vər·sə′bil·əd·ē ‚prin·sə·pəl]

(optics)

The principle that if a beam of light is reflected back on itself, it will traverse the same path or paths as it did before reversal.

(statistical mechanics)

microscopic reversibility

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