plural of time reversal

A form of joke that reverses the subject and object of an ordinary statement, claiming to describe the situation in Soviet Russia, e.g. "In Soviet Russia, television watches you!"

plural of Russian reversal

(intransitive, Britain) To make a telephone call for which the party who is called agrees to pay.

(basketball) A running in which the shooter dives under the basket and shoots the ball straight away from the basket.

(genetics) The process of creating double-stranded DNA from a single-stranded RNA template (the reverse of the standard process).

(cinematography) A shot in which one character is shown looking back at another, unseen character.

A question in a television interview that was actually recorded after the interview took place, and is presented as a cutaway scene. The technique is commonly used where only one camera was present at the interview, as a way of creating the appearance of multiple camera angles and showing a scene of the interviewer asking the question, rather than the interviewee listening to the question.

(law, ethics, public policy) The policy or practice of discriminating against members of a designated group which has in the past unfairly received preferential treatment in social, legal, educational, or employment situations, with the intention of benefiting one or more other groups (such as racial, disabled, or gender groups) that have previously been discriminated against.

(telecommunications) In radio communications, the link from a mobile user to a fixed base station. If the link includes a communications relay satellite, the reverse link will consist of both an uplink (mobile station to satellite) and a downlink (satellite to base station).