Reversal

What do we mean by reversal?

The act or an instance of reversing. noun

The state of being reversed. noun

A usually adverse change in fortune. noun

The act or an instance of changing or setting aside a lower court's decision by a higher court. noun

A maneuver in wrestling in which a competitor being controlled by the opponent suddenly reverses the situation and gains control. noun

The act of reversing, or of altering a position, direction, action, condition, or state to its opposite or contrary; also, the state of being reversed. noun

In physics, specifically, the changing of a bright line in a spectrum, produced by an incandescent vapor, into a dark line (by absorption), and the reverse. noun

The act of repealing, revoking, or annulling; a change or overthrowing: as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is erroneous and rendered void or terminated; the reversal of an attainder or of an outlawry. noun

In biology, reversion. noun

Causing, intending, or implying reverse action; reversing.

In international law: A promise by a sovereign power that a certain order, or certain conditions, promulgated or established, will be observed, notwithstanding changes that may occur to cause deviation therefrom. For instance, when France recognized Russia as an imperial government, a reversal was required that Russia would not cause any derogation from the rank which France had held toward her. noun

A declaration by a sovereign that by a given act he means no prejudice to another power. noun

In electricity, the process of changing the direction of the current in a circuit. In telegraphy the term is applied to the sending of signals over the line by means of rapidly reversed or alternating currents. noun

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. adjective

The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position noun

A change or overthrowing noun

The state of being reversed. noun

An instance of reversing. noun

A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems. noun

The state of being reversed.

An instance of reversing.

A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.

Words that are spelled similarly to reversal:
reversal, rehersal, reversa, reverse, reveal, several, referral, rehearsal, revisal, traversal, revers, reversed, reverso, demersal, versal, reverses, reversi, preverbal, reverser, prevernal, reperusal, reversals, deverbal, reversis, revenual.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word reversal:
ictus, rightward, attainder, polarity, fortunes, fortune, symmetry, conviction, trend, sperm, potentially, reversed, magnetic, thrust, reverse, membrane, meter, usual, potential, judgment, roles, occurs, occur, procedure, decision, policy, flow, policies, mirror, gender, direction, pattern, demands, ruling, negative, surgery, error.

Words that rhyme with reversal:
universal, rehearsal, dispersal, tercel, versal, hearsal, bursal, dress rehearsal, pursel, pursell, persall, reverse hill.

Adjectives that are often used to describe reversal:
complete, sudden, dramatic, partial, sharp, ironic, total, rapid, curious, time, apparent, simple, major, abrupt, role, strange, radical, interesting, significant, similar, current, possible, direct, exact, temporary, remarkable, striking, magnetic, subsequent, unexpected, stunning, startling, double, immediate, drastic, quick, slight, mere, periodic, surprising, gradual, spontaneous, extraordinary, clear, ciliary, fundamental, dialectical, comic, seasonal, successful, stress, odd, absolute, tragic, self, ground, neat, astonishing, deliberate, marked, slow, habit, non, prompt, symbolic, violent, automatic, induced, ultimate, paradoxical, brief, historic, geomagnetic, peculiar, transient.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective reversal:
theory, learning, film, date, processing, errors, agents, shifts, films, reactions, designs, potential, potentials, counties, rates, patterns, lines, design, process, shift, dates, experiments, phase, line, materials, reaction, group, effects, processes, effect, symmetry, rate, development, tendencies, points, method, papers, performance, training, techniques, pattern, studies, sign, stock, fig, technique, figure, signals, surgery, rule, mechanisms, invariance, procedures, formation, pair, condition, test, frequency, distance, tests, examples, exposure, print, quotation, agent, deficits, entry, bath, trial, stratigraphy, interpretation, prints, mechanism, procedure, stocks, phenomenon, paper, nonreversal, printing, chichester, emulsions, entries, error, strategies, images, drugs, bleach, habit.

Consonant match to reversal:
reverse hill.

Words that sound like reversal:
reversal, reversals, reversing, rehersal, traversal, rehearsal, reverses, reverse, reversed, referral, reversible, rivel, riverdale, reverser, river nile, reversi, reversely, revisal, reverso, reversibly, wrestle, revel, russell, rustle, russel, revil, revelle, rusle, traversa, reveal, rival, arrival, rivers, revival, rural, ravel, riverside, rehearsals, reversion, traversing, auroral, rissole, wrastle, raval, rassle, rivery, reroll, rasul, rivale, rossell, rastle, reviewal, river seine, reverse fault, riverway, rossel, roral, redressal, reversedly, riveret, wrizzle, reville, rehearsing, revising, reverting, warsle, eversole, tiercel, dover sole, reverie, revery, resell, reveille, revers, traverses, oversell, roussel, reversive, resol, rousselle, hair cell, river edge, peripheral, bristle, drivel, arousal, irreversible, razzle, gristle, ravers, krystle, frivol, periferal, irreversibly, grisel, haverhill, oversoul, preverbal, earl russell, radicel.