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Definitions of reversion
  1. noun
    returning to a former state
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  2. noun
    a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

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  3. noun
    a failure to maintain a higher state
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  4. noun
    turning in the opposite direction
  5. noun
    (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
  6. noun
    (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)
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Definition that contains reversion
  • revert undergo reversion, as in a mutation
  • escheat a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
  • reversionary of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion)
  • reversioner (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion
  • cataplasia (biology) degenerative reversion of cells or tissue to a less differentiated or more primitive form
  • post-obit bond a bond made by a reversioner to secure a loan; payable out of his reversion
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