Definition of "nonirreparable"

Prehistoric toolmakers overlooked some knapping errors (excluding nonirreparable breakage) because they ignored certain types of errors in favor of recognizing a consistent and meaningful whole of the tool.

2011, Wm Jack Hranicky, Prehistoric Projectile Points Found Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain, page 227

She was a Catholic, and that, added to the normal respect most officers have for the clergy, had led her to make a mistake a minor, nonirreparable one.

2012, William Kienzle, Bishop as Pawn