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==English==
{{wikipedia|reversion}}

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*wert-}}
From {{uder|en|fro|revertir}}, from {{uder|en|VL.|*revertiō}}, variant of {{uder|en|la|revertō}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|rə-vûrtʹ|rĭ-vûrtʹ|rē-vûrtʹ|a=GA}}, {{IPA|en|/ɹɪˈvɝt/|/ɹiˈvɝt/}}
* {{IPA|en|/ɹɪˈvɜːt/|a=RP}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-revert.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{sense|one who reverts to a religion, one who converts to Islam}}
** {{enPR|rēʹvûrt'|a=GA}}, {{IPA|en|/ˈɹiˌvɝt/}}
** {{IPA|en|/ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/|a=RP}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-revert2.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɜː(ɹ)t|iːvɜː(ɹ)t|s1=2}}
* {{hyphenation|en|re|vert}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# One who, or that which, reverts.
# {{lb|en|religion}} One who reverts to that [[religion]] which one had adhered to before having [[convert]]ed to another.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Kurt J. Werthmuller|title=Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250|page=77|text=[...] 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].}}
# {{lb|en|Islam|due to the belief that all people are born Muslim}} A convert to [[Islam]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|author=Islamic Society of North America|title=Islamic horizons|page=27|text=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=Islamic Society of North America|title=Islamic horizons|passage=Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason &mdash; and being a '''revert''' with a past is not an acceptable one.}}
# {{lb|en|computing}} The act of [[reversion]] (of e.g. a [[database]] [[transaction]] or [[source control]] [[repository]]) to an earlier state.
#: {{ux|en|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.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Friedrich von Borries; Steffen P. Walz; Matthias Böttger|title=Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism|page=124
|passage=In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: '''reverts''', manuals and the ollie {{...}}}}

====Derived terms====
{{col2|en|revert war|three-revert rule}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|one who reverts}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|kääntyjä}}, {{t|fi|palaaja}} {{qualifier|concrete}}, {{t+|fi|käännynnäinen}} {{qualifier|religious, ideological}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|convertito|m}}
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{{trans-top|Islamic usage: convert to Islam}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|palaaja}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|conversion}}
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{{trans-top|computing}}
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===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|now|rare}} To [[turn back]], or [[turn]] to the [[contrary]]; to [[reverse]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1700|author=w:Matthew Prior|title=A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus|text=Till happy Chance '''reverts''' the cruel scene.}}
#* {{RQ:Thomson Spring|year=1768|text=The trembling stream {{...}} / '''Reverted''', plays in undulating flow.}}
# To [[throw back]]; to [[reflect]]; to [[reverberate]]. {{rfex|en}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[cause]] to [[return]] to a former condition.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet|IV|vii|275|2|text=Conuert his Gyues to Graces. So that my Arrowes / Too ſlightly timbred for ſo loud a Winde, / Would haue '''reuerted''' to my Bow againe, / And not where I had arm’d them.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To reverse (a change).
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0| page=826| author=Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, Steven Black| year=1998| passage=This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then '''reverted''' them at the server level.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Wikipedia: The Missing Manual| page=82| author=John Broughton| year=2008| passage=You can use page histories to easily '''revert''' (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues| page=261| author=Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene| year=2008| passage=When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can '''revert''' it. And that person can revert me too.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To reverse a change made by (a person).
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues| page=261| author=Kidd, Terry T., Chen, Irene| year=2008| passage=When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can '''revert''' me too.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Human Computation| title=Group minds and the case of Wikipedia| author=Simon DeDeo| year=2014| text=She has, in other words, two beliefs: βc (the probability that the next editor will '''revert''' her, given that she cooperated) and βr (the probability that the next editor will '''revert''' her, given that she {{..}}}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To return to the possession of.
#: {{ux|en|When a book goes out of print, rights '''revert''' from the publisher to the author.}}
## {{lb|en|intransitive|legal}} Of an [[estate]]: To return to its former [[owner]], or to his or her heirs, when a [[grant]] comes to an end.
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
#: {{ux|en|Sometimes a publisher will automatically '''revert''' rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
#* {{RQ:Allingham China Governess|chapter=2|passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had '''reverted''' to her normal gaiety.&nbsp; She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|biology}} To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an [[ancestral]] type.
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
#: {{ux|en|Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers '''reverts'''.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To take up again or return to a previous topic.
# {{lb|en|intransitive|now|rare}} To return; to [[come back]].
#: {{ux|en|If they attack, we will '''revert''' to the bunker.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|Islam}} To convert to Islam.
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1995|author=Wizārat al-Iʻlām wa-al-Thaqāfah|title=Sudanow|volume=20|text=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1997|author=Islamic Society of North America|title=Islamic horizons|passage=The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he '''reverted''' to Islam.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Islamic Revival Association|title=Al Jumuʻah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12|passage=But once he '''reverted''' to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|originally|India|now global}} To [[reply]] (to correspondence{{,}} etc.).
#: {{syn|en|revert back}}
#: {{ux|en|Please '''revert''' before Monday.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|math}} To treat (a [[series]], such as <math>y = a + bx + cx^2 + \cdots</math>, where one [[variable]] <math>y</math> is expressed in [[power]]s of a second variable <math>x</math>), so as to find the second variable <math>x</math> expressed in a series arranged in powers of <math>y</math>.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1990|author=George A. Baker, Jr.; J. D. Johnson| chapter=Thomas-Fermi Equation of State - The Hot Curve| editor=Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro| title=Condensed Matter Theories| isbn=9781461278887| volume=5| page=5| pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wYLkBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6| text=First we '''revert''' the series expansion (3.6) to give <math>z(\zeta)</math> as a series in <math>z</math>.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Frank Y. Wang|title=Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics| isbn=9783527618941| pages=518–9| pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MeST330ilXQC&pg=PA518| text=To express <math>z</math> as a power series of <math>n\lambda^3</math>, we first expand <math>g_{3/2}(z)</math> in <math>z</math> {{...}} We then '''revert''' the power series to express <math>z</math> in terms of <math>n\lambda^3</math>.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2016|author=w:Linda E. Reichl|title=A Modern Course in Statistical Physics|edition=4th|isbn=9783527413492|page=218|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YmGzCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|text=We can '''revert''' the series expansion of <math>\langle n \rangle\lambda^3_T/g</math> {{...}} and obtain a series expansion for the fugacity <math>z</math> in terms of <math>\langle n \rangle\lambda^3_T/g</math>, {{...}}}}

====Derived terms====
* {{sense|a return to a previous state}} {{l|en|reversion}}
* [[revert back]]
* {{l|en|reverter}}
* {{l|en|revertible}}
* {{l|en|revertive}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|обръщам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}}, {{t+|fi|peruuttaa}}, {{t|fi|[[kääntyä]] [[takaisin]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|retomber}}, {{t+|fr|retourner}}, {{t+|fr|redevenir}}
* German: {{t|de|rückgängig machen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|επαναφέρω}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ritornare}}, {{t+|it|retrocedere}}, {{t+|it|ribaltare}}, {{t+|it|invertire}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|tornar}}, {{t|oc|retornar}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|revertir}}
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{{trans-top|to throw back; to reflect; to reverberate}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|връщам}}, {{t+|bg|отразявам}}, {{t+|bg|отразявам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palauttaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|renvoyer}}, {{t+|fr|réverbérer}}, {{t+|fr|refléter}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ripensare}}, {{t+|it|riflettere}}, {{t+|it|ripercuotere}}, {{t|it|ripercuotersi}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|reflectir}}, {{t+|oc|remandar}}, {{t+|oc|tornar}}, {{t+|oc|reverberar}}
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{{trans-top|to cause to return to a former condition}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|връщам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palauttaa}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ripristinare}}, {{t+|it|riallacciare}}, {{t+|it|regredire}}
* Occitan: {{t|oc|retornar}}, {{t+|oc|tornar}}, {{t+|oc|rendre}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|reverter}}
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{{trans-top|to return; to come back}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|връщам се}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|perääntyä}}, {{t+|fi|palata}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|tornare}}, {{t+|it|ritornare}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|tornar}}, {{t|oc|retornar}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|powrócić}}
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{{trans-top|to return to the possession of}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|взимам обратно}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}}, {{t+|fi|palautua}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|tornar}}, {{t|oc|retornar}}
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{{trans-top|to cause to return to the previous owner}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|връщам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}}, {{t+|fi|palautua}}
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{{trans-top|to return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|riprendere}}
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{{trans-top|biology: to return to an earlier or primitive type or state}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|taantua}}, {{t+|fi|palata}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|ripristinare}}, {{t+|it|regredire}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|revertir}}
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{{trans-top|to change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palautua}}
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{{trans-top|to return to a previous subject of discourse or thought}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}}
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{{trans-top|Muslim usage: to convert to Islam}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|reverter}}
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{{trans-top|to reply}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|отговарям}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palata}} {{qualifier|usually with [[asiaan]]}}
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{{checktrans-top}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|retourner}}, {{t+check|fr|revenir}}
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===Usage notes===
In the Islamic sense, ''revert'' is popularly and colloquially used due to the belief that all people are born Muslim, however, many Muslims and some of Islam's authority figures object to this as being illogical and inaccurate based on linguistic and theological grounds.<ref>{{cite-web|first=Ricardo|last=Peña|title=8 Reasons to Stop Using the Word "Revert"|titleurl=https://meccacenter.org/2019/05/15/8-reasons-to-stop-using-revert/|date=May 15, 2019|work=The Mecca Center}}</ref><ref>{{cite-web|title=Converts, Reverts, or New Muslims?|titleurl=https://beginnings.org.uk/converts-reverts-or-new-muslims/|date=January 13, 2022|work=New Beginnings}}</ref>

===References===
* {{R:OneLook}}
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=eerrtv|Verret}}

{{cln|en|ergative verbs|heteronyms}}

==Czech==

===Pronunciation===
* {{cs-IPA}}

===Noun===
{{cs-noun|m-in}}

# {{lb|cs|legal}} the unauthorised return of the deportee to the place from which he was deported
# {{lb|cs|computing}} the act of [[reversion]] (of e.g. a [[database]] [[transaction]] or [[source control]] [[repository]]) to an earlier state

====Declension====
{{cs-ndecl|m}}

====Related terms====
{{col|cs|revertovat}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:cs:PSJC}}