reversion   (Sound)

The noun reversion has 6 senses

• reversion -- ((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))


• reversion -- ((genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation))


• atavism, reversion, throwback -- (a reappearance of an earlier characteristic)


• reversion, reverse, reversal, turnabout, turnaround -- (turning in the opposite direction)


• regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion -- (returning to a former state)


• backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting -- (a failure to maintain a higher state)