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形容詞

unconvertible (comparative more unconvertible, superlative most unconvertible)

1. That cannot be converted.
   • 1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2)‎:

     I can only recommend you to read again Darwin's account of the horse family and its comparison with pigeons; and if that does not convince and stagger you, then you are unconvertible.

   • 1922, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Peaceless Europe‎:

     If the situation created by the War has transformed also the English circulation into unconvertible paper money, this is merely a passing fact.

   • 1955 August, “The Why and the Wherefore: Last Broad-Gauge Engines at Work”, in Railway Magazine, page 586:

     Of the 196 broad-gauge locomotives in service on the Great Western Railway at the end of 1891, sixty-nine were unconvertible to the standard gauge, and were withdrawn from service when Brunel's 7 ft. gauge was finally abolished nearly five months later.