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The gear that admits forward was a mistake and lets you fix it anyway.
means To go or turn back in the opposite direction, or to undo something so it returns to how it was before.
from From Latin 'reversus,' past participle of 'revertere' — 're-' (back) plus 'vertere' (to turn). The same 'vertere' root gives us 'vertigo,' 'convert,' and 'version'; it's one of the great turning-words of Latin, spinning off into English wherever something changes direction or state.
- car gear R
- Often mechanically blocked unless car is stopped
- reverse psychology
- Works best on people who think they are immune
- reverse engineering
- Legal to study, illegal to copy in many contracts
- palindromes
- Read the same forwards and in reverse