REVERSION
Dictionary entry overview: What does reversion mean?
• REVERSION (noun)
The noun REVERSION has 6 senses:
1. (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)
2. a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
3. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
4. turning in the opposite direction
5. returning to a former state
6. a failure to maintain a higher state
Familiarity information: REVERSION used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• REVERSION (noun)
Meaning:
(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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
interest; stake ((law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reversion"):
escheat (a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs)
Meaning:
A return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
chromosomal mutation; genetic mutation; mutation ((genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism)
Meaning:
A reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
atavism; throwback; reversion
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
recurrence; return (happening again (especially at regular intervals))
Meaning:
Turning in the opposite direction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
turnabout; reversion; turnaround; reversal; reverse
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
change of direction; reorientation (the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reversion"):
about turn; about-face (act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation)
u-turn (complete reversal of direction of travel)
Meaning:
Returning to a former state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
regress; retrogression; retroversion; regression; reversion
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
reversal (a change from one state to the opposite state)
Meaning:
A failure to maintain a higher state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
backsliding; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reverting; lapse; reversion
Hypernyms ("reversion" is a kind of...):
failure (an act that fails)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reversion"):
recidivism (habitual relapse into crime)
