Reversion



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 返回 ( 原状, 旧习惯) ; 逆转
• ［英］ n. 返回 ( 原状, 旧习惯) ( an act of returning) 逆转 ( an act of turning the opposite way)
• ［记］ re ( 回) +vers ( 转) +ion -> 转回去, 返回
• ［例］ reversion to bad habits

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin reversion-, reversio act of returning, from revertere
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. the part of a simple estate remaining in the control of its owner after the owner has granted therefrom a lesser particular estate
  • b. a future interest in property left in the control of a grantor or the grantor's successor
• 2. the right of succession or future possession or enjoyment
• 3.
  • a. an act or the process of returning (as to a former condition)
  • b. a return toward an ancestral type or condition ; reappearance of an ancestral character
• 4. an act or instance of turning the opposite way ; the state of being so turned
• 5. a product of reversion; specifically an organism with an atavistic character ; throwback

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