American English pronunciation
How to pronounce reversal
IPA transcription: [ɹɪ'vɚsəl]
Pronunciation variants: [ɹɪ'vɚsəl][ɹi'vɚsəl]
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Noun
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an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
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a change from one state to the opposite state
“there was a reversal of autonomic function”
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turning in an opposite direction or position
“the reversal of the image in the lens”
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a decision to reverse an earlier decision
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a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
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turning in the opposite direction
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the act of reversing the order or place of
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a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
“an about-face on foreign policy”
Usage examples
- Psychodramatist and author Lewis Yablonsky proposes four reasons for the function of role reversal.
- Loss of heterozygosity does not imply a reversal to the homozygous state.
- The story was dramatized in the book and movie, "Reversal of Fortune".
- The reversal film was then marketed as Agfachrome.
- The Nanson method satisfies and the Baldwin method violates reversal symmetry.
- This fight is known in boxing lore as The reversed reversal.
- Unable to explain the spell's reversal, the group soon believes that it is temporary.
- It was a huge reversal of momentum.
- Reversal of the electric field does not reverse the direction of the deformation.
- Antidotes for anticoagulants are often referred to as reversal agents.