n.
Pronunciation: ri- ' v ə r-zh ə n, -sh ə n
Function: 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