revert
verb
- to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject)
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɝt/ / /ɹiˈvɝt/ / /ɹɪˈvɜːt/
noun
Etymology: From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
“[...] 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].”
- A convert to Islam.
“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.”
“Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.”
- 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.”
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
“In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]”
verb
Etymology: From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
- To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
“Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.”
“The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.”
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
“Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue reuerted to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them.”
- To reverse (a change).
“This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.”
“You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit.”
- To reverse a change made by (a person).
“When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.”
“She has, in other words, two beliefs: βc (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she cooperated) and βr (the probability that the next editor will revert her, given that she :Template:..”
- To return to the possession of.
“When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.”
- To return to the possession of.
- 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.”
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
“Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.”
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
“Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.”
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- To return; to come back.
“If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.”
- To convert to Islam.
“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.”
“The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.”
- To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
“Please revert before Monday.”
- 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.
“First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z.”
“To express z as a power series of n#92;lambda³, we first expand g#95;#123;3#47;2#125;(z) in z […] We then revert the power series to express z in terms of n#92;lambda³.”