Reversion Definition
rĭ-vûrzhən
noun
A turning or being turned the opposite way; reversal.
Webster's New World
A return to a former or primitive type; atavism.
Webster's New World
A reverting, or returning, as to a former state, custom, or belief.
Webster's New World
A return to the normal phenotype, usually by a second mutation.
American Heritage Medicine
The return, or reappearance, of characteristics present in early ancestral generations but not in those that have intervened.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Reversion
Noun
Singular:
reversion
Plural:
reversionsOrigin of Reversion
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From Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revertō.
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