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Meaning of reversion

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  reversion
      n 1: (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)
      2: (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting
         from a second mutation)
      3: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: {atavism},
         {reversion}, {throwback}]
      4: turning in the opposite direction [syn: {reversion},
         {reverse}, {reversal}, {turnabout}, {turnaround}]
      5: returning to a former state [syn: {regression}, {regress},
         {reversion}, {retrogression}, {retroversion}]
      6: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: {backsliding},
         {lapse}, {lapsing}, {relapse}, {relapsing}, {reversion},
         {reverting}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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