revert
    v 1: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
         [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn
         back]
    2: undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Revert \Re*vert"\, v. i.
   1. To return; to come back.
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            So that my arrows
            Would have reverted to my bow again.  --Shak.
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   2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of
      a particular estate granted by him.
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   3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some
      preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of
      an ancestral type.
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   4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble
      state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain
      fertilizers reverts.
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Revert \Re*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Reverting.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- +
   vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf.
   Reverse.]
   1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
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            Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. --Prior.
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            The tumbling stream . . .
            Reverted, plays in undulating flow.   --Thomson.
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   2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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   3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
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   To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx
      + cx^2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in
      powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the
      second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in
      powers of y.
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Revert \Re*vert"\, n.
   One who, or that which, reverts.
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         An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts,
         or rather reverts, to the faith.         --Fuller.
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