Reversible vs Convertible - What's the difference?
reversible | convertible | Related terms |
able to be reversed
(of clothing) able to be worn inside out
(chemistry) (of a chemical reaction ) capable of proceeding in either direction
(physics) (of a phase change ) capable of returning to the original state
(thermodynamics) capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy
Able to be converted
(obsolete) Capable of being turned or rotated
* 1635 , Nathanael Carpenter, Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes (1.4.77)
Capable of being exchanged or interchanged, reciprocal, interchangeable
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VI, ''Two Centuries
(finance) Having the right to be converted into a different security, usually common stock, at the holder's option
A car whose roof can be removed or folded
(finance) A hybrid security that can be converted into stock
A portable computer that can be physically converted between laptop and tablet configurations.
Reversible is a related term of convertible.
As adjectives the difference between reversible and convertible
is that reversible is reversible (capable of being reversed or inverted) while convertible is able to be converted.As a noun convertible is
a car whose roof can be removed or folded.reversible
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* irreversibleDerived terms
* reversibilityconvertible
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(en adjective)- The Axis of the Earth is supposed to haue a convertible nature.
- As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms.