reverts
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Definitions ofreverts
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
- (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
Example: "We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges."
- (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- (now rare) To return; to come back.
Example: "If they attack, we will revert to the bunker."
- To return to the possession of.
Example: "When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author."
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
Example: "Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print."
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
Example: "Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts."
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
- (originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
Example: "Please revert before Monday."
- 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.
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