reverser
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
reverser (plural reversers)
- Something which reverses a particular action or condition.
- a polarity reverser
- 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
- 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!
- (aviation) A thrust reverser.
- (Scots law) A mortgager of land.
- (slang, computing) A reverse-engineer.
- 2011, Eldad Eilam, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering:
- 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.
Derived terms
Danish
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.vɛʁ.se/
Audio (file)
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
Further reading
- “reverser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- → English: reverse
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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