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  2. Fan (Daoism) - Wikipedia

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    The Dao is characterized by motility and reversibility, "reversal is the dao's movement", but reversibility does not end with the first fan reversal, whether it is a return to the root, nature, or the origin. "All reversal is itself further reversible, as the source returns to and moves toward itself repeatedly without finality or a concluding ...

  3. Devolution (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution (not to be confused with dysgenics) is the notion that species can revert to supposedly more primitive forms over time. The concept relates to the idea that evolution has a divine purpose and is thus progressive (orthogenesis), for example that feet might be better than hooves, or lungs than gills.

  4. List of rivers that have reversed direction - Wikipedia

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    Date of reversal Cause of reversal References Chicago River [a] Mississippi River: North America: 2017 and others [b] Storm surge [11] Mississippi River: Gulf of Mexico: North America 1812: Tectonic uplift caused by New Madrid earthquakes [12] 2005: Storm surge from Hurricane Katrina [1] 2012: Storm surge from Hurricane Isaac [1] [13] 2021 ...

  5. List of flags with reverses that differ from the obverse

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    This article contains a list of flags for which the reverse (back ) is different from the obverse (front ).It includes current as well as historic flags of both nations and national subdivisions such as provinces, states, territories, cities and other administrations (including a few that are not recognized by the United Nations or whose sovereignty is in dispute).

  6. Reverse psychology - Wikipedia

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    Reverse psychology is a technique involving the assertion of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what is actually desired.

  7. Geomagnetic reversal - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's magnetic field has alternated between periods of normal polarity, in which the predominant direction of the field was the same as the present direction, and reverse polarity, in which it was the opposite. These periods are called chrons. Reversal occurrences are statistically random.

  8. Peripeteia - Wikipedia

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    Peripeteia / ˌ p ɛr ə p ɪ ˈ t eɪ. ə / (alternative Latin form: Peripetīa, ultimately from Greek: περιπέτεια) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature; its anglicized form is peripety.

  9. Mirror image - Wikipedia

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    Thus reflection is a reversal of the coordinate axis perpendicular to the mirror's surface. Although a plane mirror reverses an object only in the direction normal to the mirror surface, this turns the entire three-dimensional image seen in the mirror inside-out, so there is a perception of a left-right reversal. Hence, the reversal is somewhat ...