4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
revert
v : go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
[syn: {return}, {regress}, {turn back}]
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