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Revert

/ɹɨˈvɜːt/

One who, or that which, reverts.

📖 Definitions of "Revert"

noun
  1. 1

    One who, or that which, reverts.

  2. 2

    One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

  3. 3

    (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.

  4. 4

    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."

verb
  1. 1

    (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

  2. 2

    To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

  3. 3

    To cause to return to a former condition.

  4. 4

    (now rare) To return; to come back.

    "If they attack, we will revert to the bunker."

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