Revert

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who, or that which, reverts.

II. Revert ·vt To change back. ·see Revert, ·vi.

III. Revert ·vi To Return; to come back.

IV. Revert ·vt To turn back, or to the contrary; to Reverse.

V. Revert ·vt To throw back; to Reflect; to Reverberate.

VI. Revert ·vi To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

VII. Revert ·vi To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

VIII. Revert ·vi To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.