revert
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertio, variant of Latin reverto.
[edit] Noun
revert (plural reverts)
- One who, or that which, reverts.
- A convert to Islam.
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
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one who reverts
convert to Islam
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[edit] Verb
revert (third-person singular simple present reverts, present participle reverting, simple past and past participle reverted)
- To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate; to get back.
- To change back.
- To return; to come back.
- If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.
- To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
- To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; 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.
- Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
- To convert to Islam
[edit] Translations
to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse
to return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form
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