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REVERT', v.t. [L. reverto; re and verto, to turn.]
REVERT', v.i.
REVERT', n. In music, return; recurrence; antistrophy.
To turn
back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . To throw back; to reflect; to
reverberate.
To change back. See
Revert,
To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y. To return; to come back.
So that my arrows To return to the proprietor
after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
To return, wholly or in
part, towards some preëxistent form; 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; thus, phosphoric acid in
certain fertilizers reverts.
One who, or that
which, reverts.
An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. Fuller. | ||||||||