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Revert

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounOne who, or that which, reverts.
2.NounOne who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
3.NounA convert to Islam.
4.NounThe 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."
5.NounThe skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
6.VerbTo turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
7.VerbTo throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8.VerbTo cause to return to a former condition.
9.VerbTo reverse (a change).
10.VerbTo reverse a change made by (a person).
11.VerbTo return to the possession of.
"When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author."
12.VerbOf an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
13.VerbTo 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."
14.VerbTo return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
15.VerbTo return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
16.VerbTo change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
"Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts."
17.VerbTo take up again or return to a previous topic.
18.VerbTo return; to come back.
"If they attack, we will revert to the bunker."
19.VerbTo convert to Islam.
20.VerbTo reply (to correspondence, etc.).
"Please revert before Monday."
21.VerbTo treat (a series, such as y = a + b x + c x 2 + ⋯ {\displaystyle y=a+bx+cx^{2}+\cdots } , where one variable y {\displaystyle y} is expressed in powers of a second variable x {\displaystyle x} ), so as to find the second variable x {\displaystyle x} expressed in a series arranged in powers of y {\displaystyle y} .
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