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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



... crowds of carriages very little display of female beauty is observed, and although well-dressed above, one cannot but revert to ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... not pray. The universe appeared to me, then, to be the work of some power, the enemy of good. I had previously, indeed, been guilty of calumniating my Creator; but little did I imagine I should revert to such ingratitude, and in so brief a time. Julian, in his most impious moods, could not express himself more impiously than myself. To gloat over thoughts of hatred, or fierce revenge, when smarting under the scourge of heaviest calamity, instead of flying to religion ...
— My Ten Years' Imprisonment • Silvio Pellico

... handsome, spacious, and convenient building, surrounded by an extensive park. In this delightful spot nature and art have combined at once to charm and to surprise; yet while breathing its pure and fragrant air, would our thoughts unconsciously revert with sympathy to the melancholy fate ...
— A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 • Otto von Kotzebue

... part, had been entirely unable to keep Maurice out of her thoughts. As Christian's death, and all the agitation consequent upon it, settled back into the past, she had plenty of leisure and plenty of temptation to revert to her old hopes and schemes. Half consciously she had allowed herself to build up a charming fabric of possibilities. Possibly Maurice might write and say, "It is Lucia I love, Lucia I want to marry. It matters nothing to ...
— A Canadian Heroine - A Novel, Volume 3 (of 3) • Mrs. Harry Coghill

... Marquette in his discovery of the Mississippi, and a Three Rivers youth, Pierre de Francheville, who intended to enter Holy Orders. The learned Intendant Talon was an examiner; he was remarked for the erudition his Latin questions displayed. Memory likes to revert to the times when the illustrious Bossuet was undergoing his Latin examinations at Navarre, with the Great Conde as his examiner; France's first sacred orator confronted by her ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine


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