The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. Not convertible
WordNet
adj. used especially of currencies; incapable of being exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal value [syn: unconvertible, unexchangeable] [ant: convertible]
not capable of being changed into something else; "the alchemists were unable to accept the inconvertible nature of elemental metals" [syn: untransmutable]
Usage examples of "inconvertible".
Since the controls provided by Bretton Woods made the dollar de facto inconvertible, the monetary mediation of international production and trade developed through a phase characterized by the relatively free circulation of capital, the construction of a strong Eurodollar market, and the fixing of political parity more or less everywhere in the dominant countries.
The idea expressed in DALTON'S atomic hypothesis (1802), and universally held during the nineteenth century, that the material world is made up of a certain limited number of elements unalterable in quantity, subject in themselves to no change or development, and inconvertible one into another, is quite alien to the views of the alchemists.
But I also, as yet, although I said and was firmly persuaded, that Thou our Lord, the true God, who madest not only our souls but our bodies, and not our souls and bodies alone, but all creatures and all things, wert uncontaminable and inconvertible, and in no part mutable: yet understood I not readily and clearly what was the cause of evil.