different between reversion vs reverter

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.

Derived terms

Translations

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

revert +? -er

Noun

reverter (plural reverters)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (law) The reversion of ownership of an estate in land to the original grantor pursuant to the occurrence of a condition set forth in the original grant.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

reverter

1. To revert (especially on a wiki)

Conjugation

Portuguese

Verb

reverter (first-person singular present indicative reverto, past participle revertido)

1. to revert (to turn to the contrary)

Conjugation

Related terms

• reverso