Time-reverse

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To subject something to a transformation in which the passage of time and all of its velocities are theorized to be reversed. transitive

    "It is compatible with the time-reversal noninvariance of the laws that the universe be such that the universe that consists of just its states at a time in reverse temporal order, without even time-reversing the states themselves, is a possible physical universe."

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"It is compatible with the time-reversal noninvariance of the laws that the universe be such that the universe that consists of just its states at a time in reverse temporal order, without even time-reversing the states themselves, is a possible physical universe."

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