Reverse or reversing may refer to:
Arts and media
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''Reverse'' (Eldritch album), 2001
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''Reverse'' (2009 film), a Polish comedy-drama film
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''Reverse'' (2019 film), an Iranian crime-drama film
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''Reverse'' (Morandi album), 2005
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''Reverse'' (TV series), a 2017–2018 South Korean television series
*"Reverse", a 2014 song by
SomeKindaWonderful
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REVERSE art gallery, in Brooklyn, NY, US
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Reverse tape effects including
backmasking
Backmasking is a recording technique in which a message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. It is a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional.
Artists have used ...
, the recording of sound in reverse
* ''
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering'', a book by Eldad Eilam
*''Tegami Bachi: REVERSE'', the second season of the ''
Tegami Bachi'' anime series, 2010
Driving
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Reverse gear, in a motor or mechanical transmission
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Reversing (vehicle maneuver), reversing the direction of a vehicle
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Turning a vehicle through 180 degrees
Sports and games
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Reverse (American football) A reverse (sometimes referred to as an end reverse or criss cross) is a relatively common trick play in American football that involves one or more abrupt changes in the lateral flow of a rushing play. History
The invention of the reverse is credit ...
, a trick play in American football
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Reverse swing, a cricket delivery
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Reverse (bridge), a type of bid in contract bridge
Technology
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Reverse engineering
Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accompl ...
, a process of determining design from a finished product
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Reverse gear, in a motor or mechanical transmission
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Reversing gear
Reversing gear is a mechanism used to both control the direction of travel of a steam locomotive and adjust its engine's steam cutoff.
Reversing lever
The most common form of reversing gear uses a lever to engage (known as a ''Johnson bar'' in ...
of a steam locomotive
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Reverse lookup, using a value to retrieve a unique key in an associative array
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Reverse telephone directory
A reverse telephone directory (also known as a gray pages directory, criss-cross directory or reverse phone lookup) is a collection of telephone numbers and associated customer details. However, unlike a standard telephone directory, where the user ...
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Reverse DNS lookup
In computer networks, a reverse DNS lookup or reverse DNS resolution (rDNS) is the querying technique of the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the domain name associated with an IP address – the reverse of the usual "forward" DNS lookup o ...
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Reverse tape effects including
backmasking
Backmasking is a recording technique in which a message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. It is a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional.
Artists have used ...
, the recording of sound in reverse
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Thrust reversal
Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is the temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust for it to act against the forward travel of the aircraft, providing deceleration. Thrust reverser systems are featured on many jet aircraft to ...
, the reversing of a jet engine's thrust direction
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Reversing type
Reversing type (also reversing, knocking-out, reversed type) is a method of typographic printing with black or colored inks, in which the entire surface is printed, except for text elements. Reversing is one of the special cases of printing on a c ...
, a method to highlight a piece of text in printing
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Reverse charging
A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell (formally a type of energy accumulator), is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or prima ...
, charging from a typically charge receive-only device
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Reverse wireless charging
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Vehicle-to-load (V2L)
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Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)
Other uses
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Obverse and reverse
The obverse and reverse are the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics. In this usage, ''obverse'' mean ...
, the two faces of objects such as coins, paper money, medals and fabrics
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Auto-reverse
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company ...
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Reversal (disambiguation)
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 ...
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Reversion (disambiguation)
Reversion may refer to:
* Conversion to Islam, also called reversion
* ''Reversion'' (2012 film), an animated short film
* ''Reversion'' (2015 film), an American science fiction thriller film
* Reversion (genetics), a back mutation
* Reversio ...
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Revers, display of reverse side of jacket cuffs, etc.
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Reversi, board game
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