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Entropy is a measure of irreversibility and disorder and is central in thermodynamics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024

This is distinct from how the term is often used, namely with the idea that it involves on a global scale "irreversibility, which has to do with the impossibility of returning to its previous state."

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024

This irreversibility, first appreciated by physicist David Finkelstein in 1958, was the earliest inkling of the black hole information paradox—“paradox” because how could reversible laws have irreversible effects?

From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2022

Although irreversibility is seen in day-to-day life—a broken glass does not resume its original state, for instance—complete irreversibility is a statistical statement that cannot be seen during the lifetime of the universe.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This irreversibility is due to the work required to evolve bubbles of gas at the surface of bright platinum plates.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various