English language

How to pronounce reversion in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion
Type of reversal
Derivation revert
Type Words
Synonyms atavism, throwback
Type of return, recurrence
Type Words
Synonyms backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting
Type of failure
Has types recidivism
Type Words
Synonyms reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround
Type of change of direction, reorientation
Has types u-turn, about turn, about-face
Type Words
Type of genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation, mutation
Type Words
Type of interest, stake
Has types escheat
Derivation reversionary

Examples of reversion

reversion
If it is my reversion of Tecmo, that was done because he had deleted good links.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There will eventually be reversion to sync up with the cloud or you own servers.
From the techcrunch.com
It's enough to cause a reversion to childhood and the Little Engine That Could.
From the nzherald.co.nz
To prevent reversion to all-green, it may help to remove the all-green foliage.
From the chron.com
You do one reversion and he gives you a 3RR warning, when in fact he's up to 3.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There is no evidence of reversion to pagan burial practices during Sweyn's reign.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He sees the negative returns of the past decade as simply a reversion to the mean.
From the businessweek.com
And US repeatedly said that 1972 reversion did not include Diaoyu's ownership.
From the economist.com
It is a reversion script based on ideas found in Voice of All's script collection.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
  • (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
  • Atavism: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
  • Turning in the opposite direction
  • Regression: returning to a former state
  • Backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state
  • Mutations are changes in a genomic sequence: the DNA sequence of a cell's genome or the DNA or RNA sequence of a virus. Mutations are caused by radiation, viruses, transposons and mutagenic chemicals, as well as errors that occur during meiosis or DNA replication. ...
  • In software development (and by extension in content editing environments, especially wikis, that make use of the software development process of revision control), reversion or reverting is the abandonment of one or more recent changes in favor of a return to a previous version of the material ...
  • The action of reverting something; The action of returning to a former condition or practice; reversal; The fact of being turned the reverse way; The action of turning something the reverse way; The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant; An estate which has been ...