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reversible process

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reversible process [ri′vər·sə·bəl ′prä·səs]
(thermodynamics)
An ideal thermodynamic process which can be exactly reversed by making an indefinitely small change in the external conditions. Also known as quasistatic process.


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Here, again, the circles designate a cycle, or at least a reversible process.
The strain energy can be defined as the mechanical work required in a reversible process to produce a particular state of stress [17].
Second, because peroxisome proliferation is a reversible process, evaluations of human liver samples obtained several days after exposure may not provide meaningful results.
 
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