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Verb
/riˈvərt/,
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reverts, 3rd person singular present; reverted, past tense; reverted, past participle; reverting, present participle;
  1. Return to (a previous state, condition, practice, etc.)
    • - he reverted to his native language
  2. Return to (a previous topic)
    • - he ignored her words by reverting to the former subject
  3. Return to (a former or ancestral type)
    • - it is impossible that a fishlike mammal will actually revert to being a true fish
  4. (of property) Return or pass to (the original owner) by reversion

  5. Turn (one's eyes or steps) back
    • - on reverting our eyes, every step presented some new and admirable scene
  1. go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
  2. undergo reversion, as in a mutation
  3. (reverting) backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
  4. (reverting) returning: tending to return to an earlier state
  5. (reversion) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
  6. (reversion) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
  7. (Reversion (genetics)) Mutations are changes in a genomic sequence: the DNA sequence of a cell's genome or the DNA or RNA sequence of a virus. Mutations are caused by radiation, viruses, transposons and mutagenic chemicals, as well as errors that occur during meiosis or DNA replication. ...
  8. (Reversion (software development)) In software development (and by extension in content editing environments, especially wikis, that make use of the software development process of revision control), reversion or reverting is the abandonment of one or more recent changes in favor of a return to ...
  9. One who, or that which, reverts; A convert to Islam; The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state; To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse; To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate; to get back; To change back; To return; to come ...
  10. (reverted) That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.); Bent back, reversed; Directed backwards
  11. (reversion) The action of reverting something; The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal; The fact of being turned the reverse way; The action of turning something the reverse way; The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant; An estate ...
  12. (reverted) to return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief
  13. Reverting means returning to the original state. Emacs lets you revert a buffer by re-reading its file from disk. See Reverting.
  14. (Reversion) The right to future possession or enjoyment by the person or his heirs, creating the preceding estate.
  15. (Reversion) A provision in a conveyance that the land will return to the grantor, or his heirs, upon the happening of an event or contingency.  Compare, Fee Simple.
  16. (Reversion) A mutation event that alters an allele conferring a mutant phenotype into one conferring a wild-type phenotype. The mutation need not restore the gene to its original nucleotide
  17. (Reversion [back to top]) The right to repossess and resume the full and sole use and proprietorship of real property which temporarily has been alienated by lease, easement or otherwise. ...
  18. (Reversion) 1) the change in vulcanized rubber – the result of aging or overcuring in the presence of air or oxygen usually resulting in a semi-plastic mass.
  19. (Reversion) A lump-sum benefit that an investor receives or expects to receive at the termination of an investment.
  20. (Reversion (Reversionary Right)) the right of the debtor to the return of what remains of his estate after the claims of his creditors have been paid in full.
  21. (Reversion) A right to future possession retained by an owner at the time of the transfer of his or her interest in real property.
  22. (REVERSION) The return of a property to the original grantor upon the occurrence of an event specified in the grant.
  23. (Reversion) Future interest in grantor that results after life estate terminates and no remainder interest was given.
  24. (REVERSION) 1) A deterioration of physical properties that may occur upon excessive vulcanization of some elastomers, evidence by a drop in hardness and tensile strength, and an increase in elongation. 2) A similar change in properties after air aging at elevated temperatures. ...