Reverse

Meaning

Adj

●

Opposite,

;

the

direction.

●

Pertaining to

,

etc.

a

to the

.

●

In Rail transportation:

To be in the non-default

; to be set for the lesser-used route.

●

Turned

;

disturbed.

●

In Botany:

Reversed.

●

In Genetics:

In which cDNA

is

from an RNA template.

Adv

●

In a

way or

;

; upside-down.

Noun

●

The

of something.

●

The

of

going backwards

; a reversal.

●

A

of

; a setback.

●

The

of a

, or the

of a

or

that is

the obverse.

●

The

of something

from a

, or from what is considered the front; the other

.

●

The

of an

that

backwards.

●

A

in

made with a

of the

; a

stroke.

●

In Surgery:

A

or

made in

, by which the

of the

is changed.

Verb

●

To

something around so that it

the

or

the

sequence.

●

To

something

or

down.

●

To

the

of two things.

●

To change

; to

to the opposite.

●

To

, come back.

●

To

; to cause to depart.

●

To cause to

; to recall.

●

In Law:

To

a law, or to change a

into its opposite.

●

In Transport:

To cause a

to

or

the

to

; to

a

in the

the

has the back.

●

In Chemistry:

To change the

of a

the products become the

and vice-versa.

●

In Rail transportation:

To place (a set of

) in the

position.

●

In Rail transportation:

To

from the

to the

.

●

In Aviation:

To

on (an engine).

●

To

; to subvert.

●

In Computing:

Short for reverse-engineer.

Sourced from

Origin

reverse

English

revers

Anglo-Norman

Sourced from

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