different between reversion vs revert

English

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revert?. Surface analysis revert +? -sion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???v??n?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

reversion (countable and uncountable, plural reversions)

1. The action of reverting something.

   Synonym: reversal

2. The action of returning to a former condition or practice.

   Synonym: regression

3. The fact of being turned the reverse way.
4. The action of turning something the reverse way.
5. (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
   • 1822, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement, stanza 6:

     Each day too slew it’s^[sic] thousands six or seven,
     Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo—
     They threw their pens down in divine disgust,
     The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […]
     (Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion—
     ’Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion).

6. (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
7. (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
8. The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
9. (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.

   Synonym: backmutation

10. A sum payable on a person's death.
11. (Islam) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.

Usage notes

Basic sense is reverting (as nominalization of revert), but also used as reversing (from reanalysis as reverse + -sion), for which the more precise term is reversal. Compare “mean reversion” with “reversal of fortune”. The similar regression has connotations of moving back in time.

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Further reading

• reversion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• reversion (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• reversion (genetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• reversion (software development) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• overrisen

Old French

Etymology

Latin reversi?.

Noun

reversion f (oblique plural reversions, nominative singular reversion, nominative plural reversions)

1. return; act of going back
2. return; act of giving back

Descendants

• ? English: reversion
• French: réversion

English

Etymology

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *reverti?, variant of Latin revert?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: r?-vûrt?, r?-vûrt?, r?-vûrt?, IPA^(key): /???v?t/, /?i?v?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v??t/
• (one who reverts to a religion, one who converts to Islam):
  • (General American) enPR: r??vûrt', IPA^(key): /??i?v?t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?v??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t, -i?v??(?)t
• Hyphenation: re?vert

Noun

revert (plural reverts)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
   • 2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250 (page 77)

     [...] 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].

3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
   • 1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27:

     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.
4. (computing) 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.

Translations

Verb

revert (third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
   • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus

     Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.

   • The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.

2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
4. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

     Convert his gyves to graces
     so that my arrows,
     Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind
     Would have reverted to my bow again

5. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
   1. (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
6. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

7. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
8. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
9. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

10. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
11. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
    • 1995, Wiz?rat al-I?l?m wa-al-Thaq?fah, Sudanow: Volume 20

      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.
12. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).

13. (transitive, mathematics) 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.

Derived terms

• (a return to a previous state): reversion
• reverter
• revertible
• revertive

Translations

Anagrams

• Verret