noun.
One who or that which reverts; colloquially, one who is reconverted.
noun.
In music, return; recurrence; antistrophe.
noun.
That which is reverted. Compare introvert, n.
To turn about or back; reverse the position or direction of.
To alter to the contrary; reverse.
To cast back; turn to the past.
To turn back; face or look backward.
To come back to a former place or position; return.
To return, as to a former habit, custom, or mode of thought or conduct.
In biology, to go back to an earlier, former, or primitive type; reproduce the characteristics of antecedent stages of development; undergo reversion; exhibit atavism.
To go back in thought or discourse, as to a former subject of consideration; recur.
In law, to return to the donor, or to the former proprietor or his heirs.
In chem., to return from a soluble to an insoluble condition: applied to a change which takes place in certain superphosphates. See reversion, 8.