Revert

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. Template:Lb One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
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3. Template:Lb A convert to Islam.
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4. Template:Lb The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

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5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
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Translations

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
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2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. Template:Rfex
3. Template:Lb To cause to return to a former condition.
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4. Template:Lb To reverse (a change).
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5. Template:Lb To reverse a change made by (a person).
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6. Template:Lb To return to the possession of.

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   1. Template:Lb Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
7. Template:Lb To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

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8. Template:Lb To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
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9. Template:Lb To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
10. Template:Lb To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

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11. Template:Lb To take up again or return to a previous topic.
12. Template:Lb To return; to come back.

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13. Template:Lb To convert to Islam.
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14. Template:Lb To reply (to correspondenceTemplate:, etc.).

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15. Template:Lb To treat (a series, such as $y=a+bx+c{x}^2+\cdots$, 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 $y$.
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Derived terms

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Translations

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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.

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Anagrams

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Pronunciation

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Noun

1. Template:Lb the unauthorised return of the deportee to the place from which he was deported
2. Template:Lb the act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state

Further reading

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