Reverts

noun verb

One who, or that which, reverts.

What it means

  1. (noun) One who, or that which, reverts.
  2. (noun) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
  3. (noun) (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
  4. (noun) 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. (verb) (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
  6. (verb) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  7. (verb) To cause to return to a former condition.
  8. (verb) (now rare) To return; to come back. “If they attack, we will revert to the bunker.”
  9. (verb) To return to the possession of. “When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.”
  10. (verb) 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.”
  11. (verb) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
  12. (verb) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

Letter analysis

  • Reverts contains 7 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
  • It uses 5 unique letters.
  • Estimated syllable count: 2.
  • Scrabble-style letter score: 10.

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Common questions

What does Reverts mean?

One who, or that which, reverts.

How many letters are in Reverts?

Reverts has 7 letters.

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