'Revert' definitions:

Definition of 'revert'

From: WordNet
verb
Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back]
verb
Undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Definition of 'Revert'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Revert'

From: GCIDE
  • Revert \Re*vert"\, v. i.
  • 1. To return; to come back. [1913 Webster]
  • So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Revert'

From: GCIDE
  • Revert \Re*vert"\, n. One who, or that which, reverts. [1913 Webster]
  • An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'revert'

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