'Reversion' definitions:
Definition of 'reversion'
(from WordNet)
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(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)
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(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
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Definition of 'Reversion'
From: GCIDE
- Reversion \Re*ver"sion\ (r[-e]*v[~e]r"sh[u^]n), n. [F. r['e]version, L. reversio a turning back. See Revert.]
- 1. The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which reverts or returns; residue. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The small reversion of this great navy which came home might be looked upon by religious eyes as relics. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) The returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. --Kent. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoyment; succession. [1913 Webster]
- For even reversions are all begged before. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Annuities) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Biol.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism. [1913 Webster]
- Reversion of series (Alg.), the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reversion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- atavism,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backup,
- backward deviation,
- bequeathal,
- bequest,
- birthright,
- borough-English,
- coheirship,
- coparcenary,
- copyhold,
- devolution,
- ectropion,
- entail,
- equitable estate,
- estate at sufferance,
- estate for life,
- estate for years,
- estate in expectancy,
- estate in fee,
- estate in possession,
- estate tail,
- eversion,
- falling back,
- fee,
- fee simple,
- fee tail,
- feod,
- feodum,
- feud,
- feudal estate,
- fief,
- gavelkind,
- heirloom,
- heirship,
- hereditament,
- heritable,
- heritage,
- heritance,
- improvement,
- incorporeal hereditament,
- inheritance,
- instauration,
- introversion,
- intussusception,
- invagination,
- inversion,
- lapse,
- law of succession,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legacy,
- legal estate,
- line of succession,
- mode of succession,
- paramount estate,
- particular estate,
- patrimony,
- postremogeniture,
- primogeniture,
- pronation,
- reactivation,
- reconstitution,
- reconversion,
- recrudescence,
- recurrence,
- redintegration,
- reenactment,
- reestablishment,
- reformation,
- regression,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- reinstation,
- reinstitution,
- reinvestiture,
- reinvestment,
- relapse,
- remainder,
- renewal,
- replacement,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- resupination,
- retroflexion,
- retroversion,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- revulsion,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- setback,
- shifting trust,
- shifting use,
- succession,
- supination,
- swingaround,
- throwback,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- turning back,
- turning backwards,
- turning inside out,
- turning inward,
- turning over,
- ultimogeniture,
- vested estate,
- volte-face
Words containing 'Reversion'
- Reversal,
- Reverse,
- Reversed,
- Reversedly,
- Reversely,
- Reverser,
- Reversibility,
- Reversible,
- Reversibly,
- Reversing,
- reversive,
- Reverse arms,
- Reverse bearing,
- Reverse curve,
- Reverse fire,
- Reverse indentation,
- Reverse operation,
- Reversed negative,
- Reversed positive,
- Reversible lock,
- Reversible process,
- Reversing engine,
- Reversing gear,
- Reversion of series,
- To reverse a machine,
- To reverse an engine,
- change by reversal,
- double reverse,
- reverse fault,
- reverse gear,
- reverse hang,
- reverse lightning,
- reverse osmosis,
- reverse split,
- reverse transcriptase,
- reversed fault,
- reversing thermometer,
- piked reverse hang,
- reverse polish notation,
- reverse stock split,
- reverse transcriptase inhibitor,
- nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor,
- non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor