Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inconvertible"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Inconvertible \In`con*vert"i*ble\, a. [L. inconvertibilis: cf.
F. inconvertible. See {In-} not, and {Convertible}.]
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed
into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is
inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes
inconvertible into specie. --Walsh.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

inconvertible
adj 1: used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged
for or replaced by another currency of equal value
[syn: {unconvertible}, {unexchangeable}] [ant: {convertible}]
2: not capable of being changed into something else; "the
alchemists were unable to accept the inconvertible nature
of elemental metals" [syn: {untransmutable}]


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