Reverse \Re*verse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reversed;p. pr. & vb. n. Reversing.]

[See Reverse, a., and cf. Revert.]

1. To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.

And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse. --Spenser.

2. To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.]

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser.

3. To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

Reverse the doom of death. --Shak.

She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray. --Sir W. Scott.

4. To turn upside down; to invert.

A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. --Sir W. Temple.

5. Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.

These can divide, and these reverse, the state. --Pope.

Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil. --Rogers.

6. (Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.

Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45[deg], and is held as in the illustration.

To reverse an engine or a machine, to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.

Syn: To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal; annul; revoke; undo.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Reversed \Re*versed"\, a.

1. Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zo["o]l.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

2. (Law) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.

Reversed positive or negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. --Abney.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fault \Fault\, n.

1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit.

2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping.

Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the

fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a

vertical fault; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a

normal, or gravity, fault. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a

reverse (or reversed), thrust, or overthrust, fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a

horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the

displacement; the vertical displacement is the

throw; the horizontal displacement is the

heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the

trend of the fault. A fault is a

strike fault when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a

dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an

oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called

cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called

step faults and sometimes

distributive faults.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)