From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reversion \Re*ver"sion\ (r[-e]*v[~e]r"sh[u^]n), noun [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 estate 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 enjoyment; 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}, verb (used with an object)
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "reversion": about-face, about-turn, atavism, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backset, backsliding, backup, backward deviation, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, coheirship, coparcenary, copyhold, devolution, ectropion, entail, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, eversion, falling back, fee, fee simple, fee tail, feod, feodum, feud, feudal estate, fief, gavelkind, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, improvement, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, instauration, introversion, intussusception, invagination, inversion, lapse, law of succession, lease, leasehold, legacy, legal estate, line of succession, mode of succession, paramount estate, particular estate, patrimony, postremogeniture, primogeniture, pronation, reactivation, reconstitution, reconversion, recrudescence, recurrence, redintegration, reenactment, reestablishment, reformation, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, reinstation, reinstitution, reinvestiture, reinvestment, relapse, remainder, renewal, replacement, restitution, restoration, resupination, retroflexion, retroversion, return, reversal, reverse, reversing, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, setback, shifting trust, shifting use, succession, supination, swingaround, throwback, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, transposal, transposition, turn, turnabout, turnaround, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over, ultimogeniture, vested estate, volte-face
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