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nounreturning to a former state
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nouna reappearance of an earlier characteristictype of:
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nouna failure to maintain a higher statetype of:
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nounturning in the opposite direction
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noun(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)type of:
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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)
Definition that contains reversion
- revert undergo reversion, as in a mutation
- 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
- 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)