time-reverse

present singular third person time-reverses · participle present time-reversing · participle past time-reversed · past time-reversed

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

   Time-reverse all motions and the three will return at the same instant to the starting point.

   2020, Martin Gardner, Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements, page 134

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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.

   1977, Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime, page 401

   The records of the waveforms are then transmitted to a central server that time-reverses them and lets the time-reversed versions back-propagate into the location domain by numerical simulation.

   2017, Farhad Rachidi, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone (editors), Electromagnetic Time Reversal - Application to EMC and Power Systems