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say it: ri-VUR-suhl
reversal is a noun meaning "a change from one state to the opposite state". It carries 8 recorded senses.
a change from one state to the opposite state
“there was a reversal of autonomic function”
turning in an opposite direction or position
“the reversal of the image in the lens”
a decision to reverse an earlier decision
a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside
law
turning in the opposite direction
the act of reversing the order or place of
a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
“an about-face on foreign policy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reversal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.