Thesaurus: reversion

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1. n. The act of returning, or coming back; return.
2. n. That which reverts or returns; residue.
3. n. The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.
4. n. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
5. n. A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
6. n. A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
7. n. (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
8. n. (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
9. n. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
10. n. turning in the opposite direction
11. n. returning to a former state
12. n. a failure to maintain a higher state