noun one who, or that which, reverts.
2. revert ·vt to change back. ·see revert, ·vi.
3. revert ·vi to return; to come back.
4. revert ·vt to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
5. revert ·vt to throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
6. revert ·vi to return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
7. revert ·vi to return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
8. revert ·vi to change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.