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(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
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To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
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To cause to return to a former condition.
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(now rare) To return; to come back.
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If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
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To return to the possession of.
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When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.
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To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
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Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.
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To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
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To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
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To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
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Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
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To take up again or return to a previous topic.
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(in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
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(originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
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Please revert before Monday.
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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.