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Revert   /rɪvˈərt/  /rivˈərt/   Listen
verb
Revert  v. t.  (past & past part. reverted; pres. part. reverting)  
1.
To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. "Till happy chance revert the cruel scence." "The tumbling stream... Reverted, plays in undulating flow."
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.


Revert  v. i.  
1.
To return; to come back. "So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again."
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 preexistent 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.


noun
Revert  n.  One who, or that which, reverts. "An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith."





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"Revert" Quotes from Famous Books



... Meanwhile, to revert an instant, if the depressed consciousness of our still more or less quailing, educationally, beneath the female eye—and there was as well the deeper depth, there was the degrading fact, that with us literally ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... "kingdom". If so, Sumerian tradition confirms the assumption of modern research that the great cities of Babylonia arose around the still more ancient cult-centres of the land. We shall have occasion to revert to the traditions here recorded concerning the parentage of Meskingasher, the founder of this line of kings, and that of its most famous member, Gilgamesh. Meanwhile we may note that the closing rulers of ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King
... behind the geraniums at their windows, and which had charmed him some months before he took up his abode at the Franciscan convent. There, amid the silence of the cloister, he could commune freely with his own mind, allow it full expansion, and revert, at will, from solitary contemplation to the most varied studies, especially to that he always so much appreciated—the study of ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli
... to hear you laugh at me,—I do, indeed. It does me good to hear your voice again with some touch of satire in it. It brings back the old days,—the days to which I hope we may soon revert without pain. Shall it not ...
— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope
... rational, if it looks to itself: for in being converted to, it surveys itself. For when extended to things external, it looks to externals, or rather it looks to colored body, but does not see itself, because sight itself is neither body nor that which is colored. Hence it does not revert to itself. Neither therefore is this the case with any other irrational nature. For neither does the phantasy project a type of itself, but of that which is sensible, as for instance of colored body. Nor does irrational appetite ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor


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