Reversal often refers to: *

Reversal (law) In law, an appeal is the process in which Legal case, cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of cla ...

, when the decision of a court of appeal is that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect *

Reversal (wrestling) Collegiate wrestling, commonly referred to as folkstyle wrestling, is the form of amateur wrestling, wrestling practiced at the Tertiary education, post-secondary level in the United States. This style of wrestling is also practiced at the Secon ...

, an action in which a defender achieves an offensive position Reversal may also refer to:

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* "Reversal" (''Arrow''), a 2017 episode of the American television series ''Arrow'' * ''Reversal'' (film), a 2001 American movie about wrestling * ''Reversal'' (video game), a 1981 a video game for the Apple II * '' The Reversal'', a 2010 novel by Michael Connelly

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Geomagnetic reversal A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the Earth's Dipole magnet, dipole magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged (not to be confused with North Pole, geographic north and South Pole, geograp ...

, a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged *

Medical reversal Medical reversal refers to when a newer and methodologically superior clinical trial produces results that contradict existing clinical practice and the older trials on which it is based. This leads to an intervention that was widely used falling o ...

, when a newer and methodologically superior clinical trial produces results that contradict existing clinical practice *

Phonetic reversal Phonetic reversal is the process of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase. When the reversal is identical to the original, the word or phrase is called a phonetic palindrome. Phonetic reversal is not entirely identical to backmas ...

, the process of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase * Reversal agent, an antidote *

Reversal film In photography, reversal film or slide film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. Instead of negatives and prints, reversal film is processed to produce transparencies or diapositives (abbrevia ...

, a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base *

Reversal test The reversal test is a heuristic designed to spot and eliminate status quo bias, an emotional bias irrationally favouring the current state of affairs. The test is applicable to the evaluation of any decision involving a potential deviation from th ...

, a heuristic designed to spot and eliminate status quo bias *

Reversal theory Reversal theory is a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology. It focuses on the dynamic qualities of normal human experience to describe how a person regularly reverses between psycholo ...

, a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology *

Risk reversal In finance, risk reversal (also known as a ''conversion'' when an investment strategy) can refer to a measure of the volatility skew or to a trading strategy. Risk reversal investment strategy A risk-reversal is an option position that consis ...

, a measure of the volatility skew or to a trading strategy in finance *

Role reversal Role reversal is a psychotherapeutic technique in psychodrama that demonstrates a protagonist's intrapersonal conflicts deeply and explicitly on the stage. This technique is perhaps the single most important and effective technique in psychodrama.G ...

, a psychotherapeutic technique *

Russian reversal "In Soviet Russia", also called the Russian reversal, is a joke template taking the general form "In America you do ''X'' to/with ''Y''; in Soviet Russia ''Y'' does ''X'' to/with you". Typically the American clause describes a harmless ordinary ...

, a type of joke, usually starting with the words "In Soviet Russia" *

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 temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust

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* Aristotle's concept of

peripeteia Peripeteia (, peripety, alternative Latin form: Peripetīa, ultimately from ) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point, within a work of literature. Aristotle's view Aristotle, in his '' Poetics'', defines peripeteia as "a change by whi ...

, a reversal of circumstances, or turning point * Reversal, a formal language concept, ''see Formal language#Operations on languages'' * Reversal, an options-trading strategy, ''see

Reversal (options) Options arbitrage is a trading strategy using arbitrage in the options market to earn small profits with very little or zero risk. Traders perform conversions when options are relatively overpriced by purchasing stock and selling the equivalent op ...

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