Associations to the word «Revert»

Wiktionary

REVERT, noun. One who, or that which, reverts.
REVERT, noun. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
REVERT, noun. (Islam) (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
REVERT, noun. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
REVERT, verb. (transitive) (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
REVERT, verb. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
REVERT, verb. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) (now rare) To return; to come back.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) (legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
REVERT, verb. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) (biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) (in Muslim usage) (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
REVERT, verb. (intransitive) (nonstandard) (proscribed) To reply; to come back.
REVERT, verb. (transitive) (math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
REVERT WAR, noun. (wiki-ism): An ongoing battle where one user reverts another user's changes, greatly lowering the opinion of all observers as to the maturity of the participants.

Dictionary definition

REVERT, verb. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".
REVERT, verb. Undergo reversion, as in a mutation.

Wise words

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