English
revert
Pronunciation
  • (GA) enPR rə-vûrtʹ, IPA: /ɹɨˈvɝt/, /ɹiˈvɝt/
  • (RP) IPA: /ɹɨˈvɜːt/
    • (GA) enPR: rēʹvûrt', IPA: /ˈɹiˌvɝt/
    • (RP) IPA: /ˈɹiːvɜːt/
Noun

revert (plural reverts)

  1. One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
    • 2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)
      [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].
  3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
    • 1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27:
      Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.
  4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
    We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
Translations Translations Verb

revert (reverts, present participle reverting; past and past participle reverted)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
    • Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
    • The tumbling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.
  2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
  4. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
    If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
    • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
      Convert his gyves to graces
      so that my arrows,
      Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind
      Would have reverted to my bow again
  5. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
    When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
    1. (intransitive, legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
  6. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
    Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
  7. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  8. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  9. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
    Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
  10. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
  11. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
    • 1995, Wizārat al-Iʻlām wa-al-Thaqāfah, Sudanow: Volume 20
      He added that Islam is the religion of justice which rejects injustice, referring to the case of Mike Tyson and how he has become a real problem to the West since he reverted to Islam.
  12. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally, India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
    Please revert before Monday.
  13. (transitive, math) To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
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