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How to use reversion in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Reversion means the act or process of reverting something. Example: “By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku).”

Examples of reversion by meaning

nounThe return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.

  • By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku).1975, Harold C. Hinton, “Japan: Power and Problems”, in Three and A Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia, Indiana University Press, →ISBN...

More sentences with reversion

  • One of the most important critics of the 'reversion nationalism' was Arakawa Akira.2007, Miyume Tanji, Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa, page 97. From the entry reversionism
  • The rudder has no manual reversion capability but can be operated with the standby hydraulic system.1999, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.6.2 Boeing 737 Hydraulic System Information”, in Uncontrolled Descent And Collision With…. From the entry manual reversion
  • Auxotrophic mutant strains are readily obtained but they should always be tested for reversion to prototrophism before use.2014, Antoon D. L. Akkermans, Jan Dirk Van Elsas, Frans J. De Bruijn, Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual. From the entry prototrophism
  • Double ambers revert at 10⁻⁸−10⁻⁹, and therefore, reversion is negligible.2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, “Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01”, in Salmonella: Methods and Protocols, pages 27–28. From the entry amber
  • Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power.2004, Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare,. From the entry Hamiltonism
  • The Churchman remarked that such incidents arose from the growing infidelity, while the Freethinker saw in them a reversion to superstition.1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist. From the entry infidelity
  • A cob is a reversion towards the negro, the child of one black parent with a mulatto, three-quarters black and hardly distinguishable.1912, James Rodway, Guiana: British, Dutch, and French, page 190. From the entry cob
  • In the event of a failure of both hydraulic systems A and B, the ailerons and elevators can be operated manually without hydraulic power (referred to as manual reversion).1999, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.6.2 Boeing 737 Hydraulic System Information”, in Uncontrolled Descent And Collision With…. From the entry manual reversion
  • Atavistical reversion may reach back to the very beginning of humanity, and some qualities of the first Great Mother may appear in the child of today.1996, Hilton Hotema, The Great Red Dragon, Health Research, page 44. From the entry atavistical
  • And even if the reversion is understood in such a case to be the donor and his heirs, a resorter to a stranger ought not to be understood so widely.2010, John Hamilton Baker, Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History, page 52. From the entry resorter

Meaning of reversion

  1. noun The act or process of reverting something.
  2. noun The act or process of reverting a database to a prior state.
  3. noun The action of returning to a former condition or practice.

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Questions about reversion in a sentence

How do you use reversion in a sentence?
Reversion is used as a noun. For example: “By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku).”
What is a short sentence with reversion?
“Double ambers revert at 10⁻⁸−10⁻⁹, and therefore, reversion is negligible.”
What does reversion mean?
Reversion means the act or process of reverting something.

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