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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Reversion \Re*ver"sion\, n. [F. r['e]version, L. reversio a
turning back. See {Revert}.]
1. The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.]
After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of
all that he brought with him. --Foxe.
2. That which reverts or returns; residue. [Obs.]
The small reversion of this great navy which came
home might be looked upon by religious eyes as
relics. --Fuller.
3. (Law) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his
heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has
terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the
proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession,
by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or
less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. --Kent.
4. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment;
succession.
For even reversions are all begged before. --Dryden.
5. (Annuities) A payment which is not to be received, or a
benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some
event, as the death of a living person. --Brande &C.
6. (Biol.) A return towards some ancestral type or character;
atavism.
{Reversion of series} (Alg.), the act of reverting a series.
See {To revert a series}, under {Revert}, v. t.
资料来源 : WordNet®
reversion
n 1: (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)
2: a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a
second mutation)
3: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: {atavism},
{throwback}]
4: turning in the opposite direction [syn: {reverse}, {reversal},
{turnabout}, {turnaround}]
5: returning to a former state [syn: {regression}, {regress}, {retrogression},
{retroversion}]
6: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: {backsliding}, {lapse},
{lapsing}, {relapse}, {relapsing}, {reverting}]