irreversible loss

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irreversible
adjective
uk
/ˌɪr.ɪˈvɜː.sə.bəl/us
/ˌɪr.əˈvɝː.sə.bəl/
not possible to change; impossible to return to a ...
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loss
noun
uk
/lɒs/us
/lɑːs/
the fact that you no longer have something or have less ...
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It is essential to bear in mind that the limit induces a qualitative change in the system behaviour, with anirreversiblelossof information.
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We conclude that ignoring environmental opportunity costs of extraction when selecting the tax rate may lead toirreversiblelossof forest ecosystems.
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Any attempt at ignoring the environmental opportunity costs of extraction when selecting a tax rate may lead toirreversiblelossof forest ecosystems.
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Ethical justifications are reinforced by expert medical consensus about prognosis ofirreversibleloss of consciousness and absence of conflict among family members.
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There is anirreversiblelossof neurons which has widespread effects.
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Inter-religious love offered a potential model of cultural syncretism, but was not able to hold its own against theirreversiblelossof community caused by romantic attachments.
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There will be lack of continuity, discontinuity of service delivery andirreversiblelossof valuable skills and resources.
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Macular degeneration causes the progressiveirreversiblelossof central vision in an older person.
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The cost of such pressures is the disappearance of our countryside itself and the steady andirreversiblelossof agricultural land.
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If we have an agricultural recession today we face a new threat of theirreversiblelossof agricultural land, which is one of the nation's most valuable assets.
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Some argue that anencephalics experience neocortical death, in which there is anirreversiblelossof consciousness and self-awareness, two determinants of a person.
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The first of these, relaxation, leads to anirreversiblelossof magnetisation.
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This often resulted inirreversiblelossof blood.
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Although till now they are in majority in population but this brain drain has caused themirreversibleloss.
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The suggested new definition of death was theirreversiblelossof the capacity for consciousness, combined with irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe.
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It is defined as theirreversiblelossof tooth structure due to chemical dissolution by acids not of bacterial origin.
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Today this condition is known to be a rare hereditary form of macular degeneration that results in progressive andirreversiblelossof vision.
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Free energy is subject toirreversiblelossin the course of such work.
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Eventually it is possible that the criterion for death will be the permanent andirreversiblelossof cognitive function, as evidenced by the death of the cerebral cortex.
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They became emblems of history, rather than of nature, signifying the irreversible losses incurred in the course of "unrepeatable, heterogeneous time" (p. 103).
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