revert

Meanings

Noun

• One who, or that which, reverts.
• One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
• A convert to Islam.
• The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

Verb

• To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
• To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
• To cause to return to a former condition.
• To return; to come back.
• To return to the possession of.
• To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
• To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
• 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.
• To take up again or return to a previous topic.
• To convert to Islam.
• To reply (to correspondence, for example).
• 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.

Origin

• From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.