Main entry: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting, backsliding
Definition: a failure to maintain a higher state
Main entry: retrogression, retroversion, reversion, regress, regression
Definition: returning to a former state
Main entry: turnabout, turnaround, reversal, reverse, reversion
Definition: turning in the opposite direction
Main entry: reversion, atavism, throwback
Definition: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Main entry: reversion
Definition: (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
Main entry: reversion
Definition: (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)