Word: revert Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈvɝt/, /ɹiˈvɝt/, /ɹɪˈvɜːt/, /ˈɹiˌvɝt/, /ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/ 1. To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene. Example: The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow. 2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. 3. To cause to return to a former condition. Labels: transitive Example: 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. 4. To reverse (a change). Labels: transitive Example: This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level. Example: You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit. 5. To reverse a change made by (a person). Labels: transitive Example: When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too. Example: 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 :Template:.. 6. To return to the possession of. Labels: intransitive Example: When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author. 7. To return to the possession of. Labels: intransitive 8. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner. Labels: transitive Example: Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print. 9. To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc. Labels: intransitive Example: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet. 10. To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. Labels: intransitive 11. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse. Labels: intransitive Example: Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts. 12. To take up again or return to a previous topic. Labels: intransitive 13. To return; to come back. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: If they attack, we will revert to the bunker. 14. To convert to Islam. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. Example: The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam. 15. To reply (to correspondence, etc.). Labels: intransitive Example: Please revert before Monday. 16. 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. Labels: transitive Example: First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z(#92;zeta) as a series in z. Example: To express z as a power series of n#92;lambda³, we first expand g#95;#123;3#47;2#125;(z) in z […] We then revert the power series to express z in terms of n#92;lambda³.