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[ri-vur-suhl]

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noun

an act or instance of reversing.

the state of being reversed.

an adverse change of fortune; reverse.

Law. the setting aside of a decision of a lower court by a higher court.

Origin:
1480–90; reverse + -al²

Related forms

pre·re·ver·sal, noun

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The landmark reversal shocked tax experts and saved the church tens of millions of dollars in taxes.

The reversal followed news-media scrutiny and a threatened lawsuit over the university's right to shut down the paper.

Others will follow-in a reversal of a hiring spree earlier this year-unless markets improve markedly in the fourth quarter.

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The landmark reversal shocked tax experts and saved the church tens of millions of dollars in taxes.

The reversal followed news-media scrutiny and a threatened lawsuit over the university's right to shut down the paper.

Others will follow-in a reversal of a hiring spree earlier this year-unless markets improve markedly in the fourth quarter.

Some scientists speculate the field is headed for a reversal.

Recent studies of our planet's churning interior are offering intriguing clues about how the next reversal may begin.

Inversion occurs when the air near the ground is cooler than the air above it, a reversal of normal atmospheric conditions.

Madoff's clients are facing an abrupt reversal of fortune that is the stuff of nightmares.

The reversal was possible because of turnover among trustees.

Frances had a childhood that reads straight out of one of her tales of reversal of fortune.

Calls that involved no reversal of rank registered as status quo and barely triggered a glance.

In order for a reversal to take place there must be a brief time during which the field is non existent.

Modelers are now working to figure out how the field reversal could have occurred.

The result has been a significant reversal after a decade of rapid growth in illegal immigration.

The method seems to work for ten years and a reversal procedure is available.

It is a partial reversal of a trend that seemed inexorable until recently.

Canadian hospitality is a polite reversal of the norm.

Biomedical engineering by chemical bonding reversal could be made using femto laing or stem cell injections may be possible.

It's a breathtaking reversal after decades of disaffection and doubt.

Curiously, there was more than a little role reversal in the first presidential debate.

Neither one of us was comfortable with the asymmetry in our roles or the apparent gender reversal.

Her refusal to change course led directly to her removal from office and the reversal of the hated policy by her successor.

Ciochon's reversal is also meeting with some criticism.

It is this reversal that makes the battery system rechargeable.

In its own way, it made a common avian reversal by coming down to the ground to become one of the island's dominant predators.

The policy set off a mini-recession, causing panic that led to a reversal.

The reversal behind it stopped us, spun us, and sucked four of us from the raft.

The shrinking dipole doesn¿t guarantee an imminent reversal.

And always remember that total protonic reversal is a bad thing.

Not only would a reversal show a lack of spine, it would send a jarring message about investor protection.

Mother and son received reversal drugs and slowly awakened and moved back to the rest of the group.

Perhaps this is all a prelude to the reversal of polarity that is known to take place.

It is a strange and abrupt reversal of corporate values.

The first signs of a sharp reversal may not show up in prices anyway.

One of the universal active interfaces perceptually transposes accounting for the reversal of one quark.

The final decision about what to do about the survivors is a reversal of the roles, interestingly.

The nuclear reversal burnishes her credentials as a moderniser.

It is not something that cannot be handled by a reversal of deforestation.

Sulaiman al-Gosaibi, the group has suffered a reversal.

That's a hell of a reversal of reality you're trying to put out there without any backing.

We need to take these jobs back by doing a reversal of what was done in the past decade.

The right combination of materials, if it can be found, should therefore produce the desired reversal.

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World English Dictionary

reversal (rɪˈvɜːs^əl)

—n
1.	the act or an instance of reversing
2.	a change for the worse; reverse: a reversal of fortune
3.	the state of being reversed
4.	the annulment of a judicial decision, esp by an appeal court on grounds of error or irregularity

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Medical Dictionary

reversal re·ver·sal (rĭ-vûr'səl)
n.

A change to an opposite condition, direction, or position.
A condition in which an individual has difficulty distinguishing the lowercase printed or written characters of particular letters: p from q; g or b from d; or s from z.
The change of an emotion into its opposite, as from love into hate.

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