reversal

Definition of reversal in English English dictionary: A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems; An instance of reversing; The state of being reversed; {n} a change, a change of sentence; A change of direction in prices In a legal context, when an appellate body sets aside the decision of a body because of an error A reversal is often followed by a remand; a reversal in attitude or principle or point of view; "an about-face on foreign policy"; the act of reversing the order or place of; The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens; a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside a decision to reverse an earlier decision turning in an opposite direction or position; "the reversal of the image in the lens; a decision to reverse an earlier decision; an unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating; Turn, unwind For convertible reversal, selling a convertible and buying the underlying common, usually effected by an arbitrageur For market reversal, change in direction in the stock or commodity futures markets, as charted by technical analysts in trading ranges For options reversal, closing the positions of each aspect of an options spread or combination strategy; setting aside, annulling, vacating or changing to the contrary the decision of a lower court or other body; A place where the current swings upward and revolves back on itself, forming a treacherous meeting of currents that can drown swimmers and slow, swamp, trap, or flip rafts Some reversals take the form of flat,foamy, surface backflows immediately below large obstructions justunder the surface, while others consist of steep waves that curl heavilyback onto their own upstream faces Reversals are also called hydraulics stoppers, keepers, white eddies,roller waves, backrollers, curlers,sidecurlers, souse holes, and, mostfrequently, holes Although some of these terms are used loosely to refer to any sort of reversal, others carry more precise shades of meaningand refer to certain types of reversals Each of these terms is discussed separately in this glossary; Tax and/or direct deposit payroll payments: A customer-initiated request issued via the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network to return funds for a tax and/or direct deposit payroll payment after the Cutoff Time of the Account Debit Date Reversals can be requested up to 5 Bank Business Days after the Tax Payment Date or Employee Pay Date; When there is a role reversal or a reversal of roles, two people or groups exchange their positions or functions. When children end up taking care of their parents, it is a strange role reversal indeed; A request by the establishment to represent a chargeback to the card issuer; An example of an arbitrage trade, where the future is sold and a synthetic future is purchased by buying a call option and selling a put option with the same maturity and strike price on the same underlying asset Entered into when the relationship described as put/call parity has broken down, and the futures is relatively expensive to the synthetic The opposite of a conversion See also Arbitrage and Conversion; a change from one state to the opposite state; "there was a reversal of autonomic function"; An online financial transaction used to negate or cancel a transaction that has been sent through interchange in error; The changing of the normal polarity of a battery due to overdischarge; Evolutionary reversion from an apomorphic to a plesiomorphic character state (cf homoplasy); A transaction from the acquirer to the card issuer informing the card issuer that the previously initiated transaction cannot be processed as instructed, i e , is undeliverable, unprocessed or cancelled by the receiver; It is a reversal when the defensive wrestler comes from underneath and gains control of his opponent, either on the mat or in a read standing position, while inbounds; The change in direction of a trend as evidenced by a geometric pattern; An image-development strategy used to turn inside out, invert, transpose, or convert to the opposite an effect in all or a portion of an image; a change from one state to the opposite state; "there was a reversal of autonomic function" a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside a decision to reverse an earlier decision turning in an opposite direction or position; "the reversal of the image in the lens; a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside; turning in the opposite direction; A message informing the sender of the original message that the message cannot be processed as instructed, i e is undeliverable, unprocessable or cancelled by the receiver; {i} act or instance of overturning, inversion, act or instance of reversing; A sudden about change in the plot or action on stage leading to an unexpected outcome; A bond swap that is the "reverse" of a prior bond swap If the initial bond swap consisted of selling bond A and buying bond B, the reversal is the sale of B and the purchase of A; The act of an appellate court annulling a judgment of a lower court because of an error; turning in an opposite direction or position; "the reversal of the image in the lens"; A reversal of a process, policy, or trend is a complete change in it. The Financial Times says the move represents a complete reversal of previous US policy; Used in the context of general equities Turn, Unwind For convertible reversal, selling a convertible and buying the underlying common, usually done by an arbitrageur For market reversal, change in direction in the stock or commodity futures markets, as charted by technical analysts in trading ranges For options reversal, closing the positions of each aspect of an options spread or combination strategy; The electronic reversal of the full amount of a prior Transaction A partial Reversal can take place at an ATM due to an incomplete dispense; A change of direction in prices; A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void; a reversal is when the defensive wrestler comes from underneath and gains control of his opponent, either on the mat or in a read standing position, while inbounds; A process for making a positive image directly from film exposed in the camera; also for making a negative image directly from a negative or a positive image from a positive transparency; Process of changing a call into a put; A change of direction in prices Also, for a person short the physical and long synthetic futures, borrowing to purchase the physical and shorting futures This takes advantage of low interest rates and allows him to make delivery if necessary; Intended to reverse; implying reversal
reversal of fortune: change of luck, change for the worse
age-reversal: A therapy or process which reverses the physiological aging process
magnetic reversal: Any of several reversals in the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field (such that a compass points South) that have happened over geologic time
revers: a lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side
time reversal: T-symmetry
time reversal: an operation that transforms a physical system undergoing a sequence of events into one in which the events take place in the reverse sequence
risk reversal: Risk reversal refers to the manner in which similar out-of-the-money call and put options, usually foreign exchange options, are quoted by Finance dealers. Instead of quoting these options' prices, dealers quote their volatility. The greater the demand for an options contract, the greater its volatility and its price. A positive risk reversal means the volatility of calls is greater than the volatility of similar puts, which implies a skewed distribution of expected spot returns composed of a relatively large number of small down moves and a relatively small number of large up-moves
change by reversal: change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern
geomagnetic reversal: Alternation of the Earth's magnetic polarity. The Earth's internal magnetic field reverses, on average, about every 300,000 to 1 million years. This reversal is very sudden on a geologic time scale, apparently taking about 5,000 years. The time between reversals is highly variable, sometimes less than 40,000 years and at other times as long as 35 million years. No regularities or periodicities have yet been discovered. A long interval of one polarity may be followed by a short interval of opposite polarity. See also polar wandering
government's reversal: overthrow of a government
revers: a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side
revers: A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat
reversals: plural of reversal
role reversal: Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do. men who have undertaken the most extreme role reversal and become house-husbands
time reversal: An operation representing a transformation from a given physical system undergoing a given sequence of events to a system in which the exact reverse sequence of events takes place