Re‐vert″, v. i. 1. To return; to come back.
So that my arrows
Would have reverted to my bow again. Shak.
2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.