Irrevocable vs Irreducible - What's the difference?
irrevocable | irreducible |
Unable to be retracted or reversed; final.
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Not able to be reduced or lessened.
Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
(mathematics, of a polynomial) Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x^2 + 1) .
(mathematics, of an integer) Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
(topology, of a manifold) Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
(group theory, of a representation) impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation
As adjectives the difference between irrevocable and irreducible
is that irrevocable is unable to be retracted or reversed; final while irreducible is not able to be reduced or lessened.As a noun irreducible is
such a polynomial.irrevocable
English
Adjective
(-)- Firm and irrevocable is my doom
- Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.
- On each face, wonder and fear were painted vividly; each so still and silent, looking at the other over the black gulf of the irrevocable past.
Cycling: Cipo retires. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes. Probably," New York Times (retrieved 27 April 2014):
- Once again, Mario Cipollini has announced his definite, absolute, unswerving and irrevocable decision to retire, and this time he means it. Probably.