Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reversal

Reversal , adjective

[See Reverse.]

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obsolete] — Bp. Burnet

Reversal , noun

[From Reverse.]

1.
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.
2.
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. — Blackstone