Meaning

• One who, or that which, reverts.

• One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another

• (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.

• 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."

Meaning

• (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

• To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

• To cause to return to a former condition.

• (now rare) To return; to come back.

  "If they attack, we will revert to the bunker."

• To return to the possession of.

  "When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author."

• To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

  "Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print."

• To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.

• To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

• To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

  "Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts."

• To take up again or return to a previous topic.

• (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.

• (originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).

  "Please revert before Monday."

• To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.