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reverser en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From reverse + -er.

Meanings

  1. Something which reverses a particular action or condition.
    • a polarity reverser
    • The down grade would give her a start, and then, if Mitchell got his reverser over smartly, he might catch her on the right angle, and she would come back. Mitchell reversed, and moved forward, but to the horror of the fireman, he didn't stop! 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
  2. Something which reverses a particular action or condition. ▸ A thrust reverser.
  3. (qualifier:Scots law) A mortgager of land.
  4. (slang) A reverse-engineer.
    • Antidebugger techniques are particularly effective when combined with code encryption because encrypting the program forces reversers to run it inside a debugger in order to allow the program to decrypt itself. 2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering:

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Deriveds

thrust reverser