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What does revert mean?

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Noun
  1. One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
  3. (Islam) A convert to Islam.
  4. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
Verb
  1. (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  3. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
  4. (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
  5. (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
    1. (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
  6. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
  7. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  8. (biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  9. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
  10. (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
  11. To convert to Islam.
  12. To reply (to correspondence, for example).
  13. (mathematics) 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 arranged in powers of y.
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