[syn: inconvertible, untransmutable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inconvertible
adj 1: used especially of currencies; incapable of being
exchanged for or replaced by another currency of equal
value [syn: inconvertible, unconvertible,
unexchangeable] [ant: convertible, exchangeable]
2: not capable of being changed into something else; "the
alchemists were unable to accept the inconvertible nature of
elemental metals" [syn: inconvertible, untransmutable]