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Definitions and meaning of revert

revert

Etymology

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: rə-vûrtʹ, rĭ-vûrtʹ, rē-vûrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɝt/, /ɹiˈvɝt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɜːt/
• (one who reverts to a religion, one who converts to Islam):
  • (General American) enPR: rēʹvûrt', IPA^(key): /ˈɹiˌvɝt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t, -iːvɜː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: re‧vert

Noun

revert (plural reverts)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

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Verb

revert (third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
4. (transitive) To reverse (a change).
5. (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
6. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
   1. (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
7. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

8. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
9. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
10. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

11. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
12. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.

13. (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
14. (intransitive, originally India, now also, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).

    Synonym: revert back

15. (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as ${\displaystyle y=a+bx+cx^{2}+\cdots }$, where one variable ${\displaystyle y}$ is expressed in powers of a second variable ${\displaystyle x}$), so as to find the second variable ${\displaystyle x}$ expressed in a series arranged in powers of ${\displaystyle y}$.

Derived terms

• (a return to a previous state): reversion
• revert back
• reverter
• revertible
• revertive

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Usage notes

In the Islamic sense, revert is popularly and colloquially used due to the belief that all people are born Muslim, however, many Muslims and some of Islam's authority figures object to this as being illogical and inaccurate based on linguistic and theological grounds.

References

• “revert”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Verret

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛvɛrt]

Noun

revert m inan

1. (law) the unauthorised return of the deportee to the place from which he was deported
2. (computing) the act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state

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Further reading

• revert in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957