interconvertible

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The primary objects of the labor reformers were, it appears, to lower the rate of interest on money and to reduce taxation by the transformation of the war debt into interconvertible bonds.

From The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics by Buck, Solon J. (Solon Justus)

The several forms of energy are interconvertible, and possess an exact quantitative equivalence.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.

All we have to say is, that, if we do not now absolutely know, we do reasonably suspect, that heat and light are mere mechanical motions, alike in nature and interconvertible in fact.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

The Government accumulated a conversion fund, understood to be $60,000,000 to $70,000,000, but owing to crises at home and abroad it has not yet been able to make gold and paper notes interconvertible.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

For, by a marvelous harmony, in social economy all these adjectives are interconvertible.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)