Definition of "revert"

revert

/ɹɪˈvɝt/

noun
plural reverts
1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
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  [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].
  2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250, page 77
3. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
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  Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.
  1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27
  Parents should not reject a proposal without good reason — and being a revert with a past is not an acceptable one.
  2001, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
  Quotations
  In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]
  2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124
verb
third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted
1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  Quotations
  Till happy Chance reverts the cruel scene.
  c. 1700, Matthew Prior, A Passage in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus
  The trembling stream […] / Reverted, plays in undulating flow.
  1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
  Quotations
  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.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene vii], page 275, column 2
4. (transitive) To reverse (a change).
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  This makes sense because you've committed the changes locally, but then reverted them at the server level.
  1998, Tamar E. Granor, ‎Ted Roche, ‎Steven Black, Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0, page 826
  You can use page histories to easily revert (that is, reverse) another editor's inappropriate edit.
  2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 82
  When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
  2008, Kidd, Terry T., ‎Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261
5. (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
  Quotations
  When s.o.'s edit doesn't apply to my standards, I can revert it. And that person can revert me too.
  2008, Kidd, Terry T., ‎Chen, Irene, Social Information Technology: Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, page 261
  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 {{..}}
  2014, Simon DeDeo, “Group minds and the case of Wikipedia”, in Human Computation
6. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
  1. (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
7. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
8. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  Quotations
  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.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess‎
9. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
10. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
11. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
12. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
13. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
  Quotations
  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.
  1995, Wizārat al-Iʻlām wa-al-Thaqāfah, “Sudanow”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 20
  The mission of 'translating' the Qur'an had preoccupied Pickthall's mind since he reverted to Islam.
  1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons
  But once he reverted to Islam, he attended as many lectures as he could, listened to Islamic tapes and the recitations of Qur'an. Subtly and gradually his moods were stabilized, and he started to have positive outlook on life.
  2003, Islamic Revival Association, Al Jumuʻah: Volume 15, Issues 7-12
14. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally India, now also, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
15. (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y = a + b x + c x 2 + ⋯ , 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 .
  Quotations
  First we revert the series expansion (3.6) to give z ( ζ ) {\displaystyle z(\zeta )} as a series in z {\displaystyle z} .
  1990, George A. Baker, Jr., J. D. Johnson, “Thomas-Fermi Equation of State - The Hot Curve”, in Valdir C. Aguilera-Navarro, editor, Condensed Matter Theories, volume 5, page 5
  To express z {\displaystyle z} as a power series of n λ 3 {\displaystyle n\lambda ^{3}} , we first expand g 3 / 2 ( z ) {\displaystyle g_{3/2}(z)} in z {\displaystyle z} […] We then revert the power series to express z {\displaystyle z} in terms of n λ 3 {\displaystyle n\lambda ^{3}} .
  2005, Frank Y. Wang, Physics with MAPLE: The Computer Algebra Resource for Mathematical Methods in Physics, pages 518–9
  We can revert the series expansion of ⟨ n ⟩ λ T 3 / g {\displaystyle \langle n\rangle \lambda _{T}^{3}/g} […] and obtain a series expansion for the fugacity z {\displaystyle z} in terms of ⟨ n ⟩ λ T 3 / g {\displaystyle \langle n\rangle \lambda _{T}^{3}/g} , […]
  2016, Linda E. Reichl, A Modern Course in Statistical Physics, 4th edition, page 218

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