Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 11 compound words that contain reversal. The most common are listed below. Open reversal in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- role reversalA situation in which two people adopt roles that are the reverse of the roles they normally assume in relation to one another.
- Russian reversalA type of joke that reverses the subject and object of an ordinary statement, claiming to describe the situation in Soviet Russia.
- age-reversalA therapy or process which reverses the physiological aging process.
- magnetic reversalAny of several reversals in the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field (such that a compass points South) that have happened over geologic time.
- time reversalAn operation that transforms a physical system undergoing a sequence of events into one in which the events take place in the reverse sequence.
- time reversal mirrorA device that uses a transducer to sample, to reverse in time, and to reemit an acoustic field or another type of wave.
- time reversal signal processingA technique that either creates an optimal carrier signal for communication, reconstructs a source event, or focuses on high-energy waves to a point in space.
- time reversal invarianceThe principle that if a sequence of events is possible, then the same sequence is also possible in the reverse order.
- time reversal mirrorsplural of time reversal mirror: A device that uses a transducer to sample, to reverse in time, and to reemit an acoustic field or another type of wave.
- time reversal invariancesplural of time reversal invariance: The principle that if a sequence of events is possible, then the same sequence is also possible in the reverse order.
Compound words 11
- counterreversalA reversal in response to, or undoing, a previous reversal.
- nonreversalLack of reversal; failure to reverse.
- prereversalBefore reversal.
- reversalismThe idea that what is true about the universe is the exact opposite of what a person or group of people believes.
- reversalistOf or pertaining to reversalism or to reversalists.
- reversallyIn a reversal manner; by means of reversing.
- unreversalThe process of unreversing something.
- reversalityThe state, property, or quality of being reversed.
- photoreversalphotoreactivation
- reversalismsplural of reversalism: The idea that what is true about the universe is the exact opposite of what a person or group of people believes.