reverting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: reverting	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reverting adj tending to return to an earlier state [syn: returning, reverting] n a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Revert \Re*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reverted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reverting}.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See {Verse}, and cf. {Reverse}.] 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. 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 + cx^{2} + 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.