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REVERSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A failure to maintain a higher state
Synonyms:
backsliding; lapse; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reversion; reverting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
failure (an act that fails)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reversion"):
recidivism (habitual relapse into crime)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Returning to a former state
Synonyms:
regress; regression; retrogression; retroversion; reversion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
reversal (a change from one state to the opposite state)
Derivation:
revert (go back to a previous state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Turning in the opposite direction
Synonyms:
reversal; reverse; reversion; turnabout; turnaround
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
change of direction; reorientation (the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reversion"):
about-face; about turn (act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation)
u-turn (complete reversal of direction of travel)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
recurrence; return (happening again (especially at regular intervals))
Sense 5
Meaning:
(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
chromosomal mutation; genetic mutation; mutation ((genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
interest; stake ((law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reversion"):
escheat (a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs)
Derivation:
reversionary (of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion))
