Reversion
[rɪ'vɜːʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ'vɝʒən]
Definition
(noun.) turning in the opposite direction.
(noun.) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation).
(noun.) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee).
Typist: Pierce--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return.
(n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.
(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.
(n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
(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.
(n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
Typed by Barnaby
Examples
- It is a case almost certainly of reversion. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She was indeed, as her fellow Martian had said of her, an atavism; a dear and precious reversion to a former type of loved and loving ancestor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- These two distinct cases of reversion are often confounded together by those who have written on inheritance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Pitt can't be such an infernal villain as to sell the reversion of the living. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This rare event is probably a case of reversion to the long-lost, aboriginal instinct of nidification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The greater or less force of inheritance and reversion determine whether variations shall endure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In many cases we do not know what the aboriginal stock was, and so could not tell whether or not nearly perfect reversion had ensued. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The money which I brought into the family, sir, Lady George cried out-- You purchased a contingent reversion with it, the Marquis said darkly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The reversion falling in soon after they were married, Fledgeby's father laid hold of the cash for his separate use and benefit. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It might further be expected that the species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to long-lost characters. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- With both varieties and species, reversions to long-lost characters occasionally occur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Checker: Max