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| revert | |
| 1. ripristinare, riallacciare | |
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| revert | |
| 1. subst. One who, or that which, reverts. |  |
| 2. subst. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another |  |
| 3. subst. (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam. |  |
| 4. subst. (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. |  |
| 5. v. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse. |  |
| 6. v. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. |  |
| 7. v. To cause to return to a former condition. |  |
| 8. v. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back. |  |
| If they attack, we will revert to the bunker. |  |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To return to the possession of. |  |
| When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author. |  |
| 10. v. (intransitive, legal) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end. |  |
| 11. v. To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner. |  |
| Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print. |  |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc. |  |
| 13. v. (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. |  |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse. |  |
| Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts. |  |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic. |  |
| 16. v. (intransitive, in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam. |  |
| 17. v. (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed, originally, India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example). |  |
| Please revert before Monday. |  |
| 18. v. (transitive, math) 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 ar |  |