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Reverting   /rɪvˈərtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Revert  v. t.  (past & past part. reverted; pres. part. reverting)  
1.
To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. "Till happy chance revert the cruel scence." "The tumbling stream... Reverted, plays in undulating flow."
2.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3.
(Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
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.


Revert  v. i.  
1.
To return; to come back. "So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again."
2.
(Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
3.
(Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
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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"Reverting" Quotes from Famous Books



... a sigh. "I don't do it on purpose. The only thing, this afternoon," she went on, reverting to the other question, "would be their ...
— Some Short Stories • Henry James
... our tents a few feet back from the shore; and stood watching him while he did so, one eye reverting occasionally to Evelyn Grey and Kemper. They both were seated cross-legged beside the branch, and they seemed to be talking a great deal and rather earnestly. I couldn't quite understand what they found to talk about so earnestly and volubly all of a sudden, inasmuch ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... wheeled suddenly round, which fortunately set the poor manager at liberty. Both stared at Bertram: the Frenchman looked up for a moment: even the White Hat, being taken by surprise, made a half wheel on his chair; though immediately reverting, not without some indignation at himself, to his former position; in fact every soul in the room looked at Bertram except the Dutchman. Silence ensued; and the landlord, after raising and dropping his eyes alternately from Bertram's ...
— Walladmor: - And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. - In Two Volumes. Vol. I. • Thomas De Quincey
... convent—yes," I cried, my mind reverting back to the conversation I had heard between ...
— The Birthright • Joseph Hocking
... remarked; "but, upon my word, better couldna hae happened him, for he was a cruel-hearted man." Then, reverting to his relative, "Puir Jamie," he said; "but I think we'll manage to get Jamie oot o' his scrape by-and-by. I hae gude interest wi' the governor, through a certain acquaintance, and houpe to be able to get him a free pardon in a whily. ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII • various


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