Reversal
Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
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Reversal Quotations
There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.
Stone Gossard
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
Carolyn Heilbrun
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.
Mike Rounds
Reversal Translations
reversal in German is umkehr, Umschwung, Umkehrung
reversal in Italian is ritorno
reversal in Swedish is omkastning
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