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re⋅vert

[ri-vurt]

–verb (used without object)

1.	to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.

2.	Law. to go back to or return to the former owner or to his or her heirs.

3.	Biology. to return to an earlier or primitive type.

4.	to go back in thought or discussion: He constantly reverted to his childhood.

–noun

5.	a person or thing that reverts.

6.	Law. a reversion.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME reverten (< OF revertir) < L revertere to turn back, equiv. to re- re- + vertere to turn; see verse

Related forms:

re⋅vert⋅i⋅ble, adjective

re⋅vert⋅i⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

re⋅ver⋅tive, adjective

re⋅ver⋅tive⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1, 3. retrogress.

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re·vert (rĭ-vûrt')

intr.v. re·vert·ed, re·vert·ing, re·verts

To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
Law To return to the former owner or to the former owner's heirs. Used of money or property.
Genetics To undergo reversion.

[Middle English reverten, from Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertīre, variant of Latin revertere : re-, re- + vertere, to turn; see wer-² in Indo-European roots.]
re·vert'er n., re·vert'i·ble adj., re·ver'tive adj.

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Revert

Re*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.]

1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. --Prior.

The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. --Thomson.

2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.

To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx^2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

Revert

Re*vert"\, v. i. 1. To return; to come back.

So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. --Shak.

2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some pre["e]xistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

Revert

Re*vert"\, n. One who, or that which, reverts.

An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. --Fuller.

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Language Translation for : Revert

Spanish: volver,

German: zurückkommen,

Japanese: もとに戻る

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revert

c.1300, "to come to oneself again," from O.Fr. revertir, from V.L. *revertire, variant of L. revertere "turn back," from re- "back" + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Of position or property from 1447; application to customs and ideas is from 1612.

Main Entry: re·vert
Pronunciation: ri-'v&rt
Function: intransitive verb
1 : to come or go back (as to a former status or state) revert to the donor's estate —W. M. McGovern, Junior et al.>
2 : to return to the grantor or his or her heirs as a reversion —re·vert·ible /-'v&r-t&-b&l/ adjective

Main Entry: re·vert
Pronunciation: ri-'v&rt
Function: intransitive verb
: to undergo reversion —re·vert·ible /-'v&rt-&-b&l/ adjective

revert re·vert (rĭ-vûrt')
v. re·vert·ed, re·vert·ing, re·verts

To return to a former condition, practice, subject, or belief.
To undergo genetic reversion.

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