Revere
a city of Massachusetts, in Suffolk co., on the Boston and Maine railroad. It forms a suburb of Boston, which it joins on the northeast. An excellent beach makes it a favorite bathing resort, and the State has constructed a magnificent public bath house. Among its notable buildings are a city hall and a public library. Pop. (1910) 18,219; (1920) 28,823.
REVIVAL nuity which does not begin to be paid at once, but at a certain future day.
In biology, the tendency of an animal or a plant to revert to long-lost characters.
Darwin contends that it is by no means so potent as is generally believed. It is easy to breed cart or race-horses, long and short-horned cattle, and esculent vegetables without their reverting to the characters of the aboriginal stock.
He also believes that reversionary and analogous characters can be easily confounded.
In law, the returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs after a particular estate is ended. An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. The term is sometimes improperly extended to any future estate in reversion or remainder. Reversion of series, in mathematics, when one quantity is expressed in terms of another, by means of a series, the operation of finding the value of the second in terms of the first, by means of a series, is called the reversion of the series. a