reversible

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If, on the other hand, the evidence is barely adequate without the erroneously-admitted material, and the error was likely quite destructive, then the judges may well find the error "reversible" - one on the basis of which the conviction must be reversed.

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  1. adjective That can be reversed, as:
  2. adjective Finished so that either side can be used: a reversible fabric.
  3. adjective Wearable with either side turned outward: a reversible skirt; a reversible vest.

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  • Evidently such a process is reversible, and the phonograph can send a message to the distant receiver This idea was brilliantly demonstrated in practice in February, 1889, by Mr. W. J. Hammer, one of Edison's earliest and most capable associates, who carried on telephonographic communication between New York and an audience in Philadelphia. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Most important, perturbations in climate must be local and reversible --and not mercy to quiet environmentalist fears. —  EBSCOhost
  • But it's reversible, and when I leave they'll give me any other modification I want within a four thousand credit range. —  Analog May, 1971
  • But in Alcenor, Edwards had been told, it was sometimes reversible -- especially if a mirror had been involved at the time of passing. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
  • This technique provides a rapid, reversible, and tunable method for studying the activity of a protein of interest in cells. —  Health News from Medical News Today
 

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  1. = French réversible = Spanish reversible = Portuguese reversivel = It, riversibile; as reverse + -ible.
 

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