How to pronounce “revert”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• One who, or that which, reverts.
• (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
• (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
• (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
• The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
• To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
• (transitive) To reverse (a change).
• (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
• (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
• (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
• (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
• (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
• (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
• (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
• (intransitive, now rare) To return; to come back.
• (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
• (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
• (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as
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• {\displaystyle y=a+bx+cx^{2}+\cdots }
• , where one variable
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• expressed in a series arranged in powers of
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