inconvertible : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: inconvertible	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for inconvertible
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inconvertible adj used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value Synonym(s): inconvertible, unconvertible, unexchangeable Antonym(s): convertible, exchangeable not capable of being changed into something else; "the alchemists were unable to accept the inconvertible nature of elemental metals" Synonym(s): inconvertible, untransmutable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inconvertible \In`convert"ible\, 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.