inconvertible Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value
    unconvertible; unexchangeable.
  2. adjective satellite not capable of being changed into something else
    untransmutable.
    • the alchemists were unable to accept the inconvertible nature of elemental metals

WordNet


In`con*vert"i*ble adjective
Etymology
L. inconvertibilis: cf. F. inconvertible. See In- not, and Convertible.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913