Reversal

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Reversal often refers to:

  • Reversal (law), when the decision of a court of appeal is that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect
  • Reversal (wrestling), an action in which a defender achieves an offensive position

Reversal may also refer to:

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  • Geomagnetic reversal, a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged
  • Medical reversal, when a newer and methodologically superior clinical trial produces results that contradict existing clinical practice
  • Phonetic reversal, the process of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase
  • Reversal film, a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base
  • Reversal test, a heuristic designed to spot and eliminate status quo bias
  • Reversal theory, a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology
  • Risk reversal, a measure of the volatility skew or to a trading strategy in finance
  • Role reversal, a psychotherapeutic technique
  • Russian reversal, a type of joke, usually starting with the words "In Soviet Russia"
  • Thrust reversal, the temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust

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