(transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse. / To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. / (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.

One who, or that which, reverts. / (religion) One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

(genetics) That has reverted to its former genotype or to the original phenotype by means of a subsequent mutation / (heraldry) Flexed, bent twice at a sharp angle.

A revertant cell or organism

That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.). / Bent back, reversed. / Directed backwards.

simple past tense and past participle of revert

plural of revertant

Alternative form of revertible (which is the more common form)

The quality of being revertable.

Able to be reverted.