revert.
One who, or that which, reverts.
Meaning & usage
One who, or that which, reverts.
One who reverts to that religion which one 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.
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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-etor Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin revertor Old French revertirbor. English revert From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
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 reverse (a change).
To reverse a change made by (a person).
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. Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
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.
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-etor Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin revertor Old French revertirbor. English revert From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.
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