reverts

Noun

revert (plural reverts)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
   • [...] Cyril III ibn Laqlaq’s correspondence which reflects genuine—if intentionally vague—concern for the secretive community of Christian converts and reverts [who had converted to Islam before].2010, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Coptic Identity and Ayyubid Politics in Egypt: 1218-1250, page 77
3. (ideologically loaded, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
   • Zeba Siddiqui, herself a revert and editor of the Parent's Manual: A Guide for Muslim Parents Living in North America, contributed to this book as a consultant.1997, Islamic Society of North America, Islamic horizons, page 27
4. The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
   • We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.
5. The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
   • In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism, page 124

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