Reversal
[rɪ'vɜːs(ə)l] or [rɪ'vɝsl]
Definition
(noun.) a change from one state to the opposite state; 'there was a reversal of autonomic function'.
(noun.) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside.
(noun.) a decision to reverse an earlier decision.
(noun.) turning in an opposite direction or position; 'the reversal of the image in the lens'.
Typed by Corinne--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
(n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
(n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
Typed by Amalia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Repeal, revocation, annulment.
Checked by Clifton
Examples
- Wert thou to fly, what would ensue but the reversal of thy arms, the dishonour of thine ancestry, the degradation of thy rank? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In general, it presents us with an almost complete reversal of the classic doctrine of the relations of experience and reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If the current could be repeatedly reversed just as the helix completed its half turn, the motion could be prolonged; periodic current reversal would produce continuous rotation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The young man, as he followed his wife into the hall, was conscious of a curious reversal of mood. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Mechanical Reversal of the Current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The mechanical reversal of the current is accomplished by the use of the commutator, which is a metal ring split into halves, well insulated from each other and from the shaft. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This reversal is pregnant with a new outlook for statecraft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Proper reversals of the current are accompanied by continuous motion, and since the disk and shaft rotate with the coil, there is continuous rotation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When such reversals do not take place, the currents are said to be direct. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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