Revert

v. t.	1.	To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. - Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. - Thomson.
	2.	To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
	3.	(Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series (Alg.) to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
v. i.	1.	To return; to come back. So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. - Shak.
	2.	(Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
	3.	(Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
	4.	(Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
n.	1.	One who, or that which, reverts. An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. - Fuller.

Verb	1.	revert - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" Synonyms: retrovert, regress, turn back, return
	2.	revert - undergo reversion, as in a mutation

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