Reversion

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Reversion may refer to:

• Reversion (law)
• Reversion (software development)
• Re-version, the re-release of an existing television programmes or film.
• Series reversion, in mathematics
• Reversion, in evolutionary biology it is the return of a character to one of its previous ancestral states. Reversion is quite commonly observed within DNA. The existence of reversion refutes Dollo's law a 19th century theory that evolution cannot return to a prior form of an organism. Similarly, in horticulture, a reversion is when a plant or branch of a specific cultivar, such as a dwarf, returns to the growth pattern of the parent variety.
• Reversion or reversionary benefit, in real estate appraisal it is a lump-sum benefit an investor receives or expects to receive upon the termination of an investment. A reversion can be used in real estate valuation by valuing the last projected cash flow as a perpetuity using a reversion cap rate
• In Islam it is common to call a convert to the religion as a revert.

[edit] See also

• Religious conversion

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