How to pronounce "revert"

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I call myself a body architect.

I trained in classical ballet

and have a background in architecture and fashion.

As a body architect, I fascinate with the human body

and explore how I can transform it.

I worked at Philips Electronics

in the far-future design research lab,

looking 20 years into the future.

I explored the human skin, and how technology can transform the body.

I worked on concepts like an electronic tattoo,

which is augmented by touch,

or dresses that blushed and shivered with light.

I started my own experiments.

These were the low-tech approaches to the high-tech conversations I was having.

These are Q-tips stuck to my roommate with wig glue.

(Laughter)

I started a collaboration with a friend of mine, Bart Hess --

he doesn't normally look like this --

and we used ourselves as models.

We transformed our apartments into our laboratories,

and worked in a very spontaneous and immediate way.

We were creating

visual imagery provoking human evolution.

Whilst I was at Philips, we discussed this idea of a maybe technology,

something that wasn't either switched on or off, but in between.

A maybe that could take the form of a gas or a liquid.

And I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body,

so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.

I set up my studio in the red-light district

and obsessively wrapped myself in plumbing tubing,

and found a way to redefine the skin

and create this dynamic textile.

I was introduced to Robyn, the Swedish pop star,

and she was also exploring

how technology coexists with raw human emotion.

And she talked about how technology with these new feathers,

this new face paint, this punk, the way that we identify with the world,

and we made this music video.

I'm fascinated with the idea

of what happens when you merge biology with technology,

and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram

biology, in the future, away from disease and aging.

And I thought about this concept of,

imagine if we could reprogram

our own body odor, modify and biologically enhance it,

and how would that change the way that we communicate with each other?

Or the way that we attract sexual partners?

And would we revert back to being more like animals,

more primal modes of communication?

I worked with a synthetic biologist,

and I created a swallowable perfume,

which is a cosmetic pill that you eat

and the fragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire.

It completely blows apart the way that perfume is,

and provides a whole new format.

It's perfume coming from the inside out.

It redefines the role of skin, and our bodies become an atomizer.

I've learned that there's no boundaries,

and if I look at the evolution of my work

i can see threads and connections that make sense.

But when I look towards the future,

the next project is completely unknown and wide open.

I feel like I have all these ideas existing embedded inside of me,

and it's these conversations and these experiences

that connect these ideas, and they kind of instinctively come out.

As a body architect,

I've created this limitless and boundless platform

for me to discover whatever I want.

And I feel like I've just got started.

So here's to another day at the office.

(Laughter) (Applause)

Thank you!

Phonetic Breakdown of "revert"

Learn how to break down "revert" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.

Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/ɹɨˈvɜːt/

/ɹiˈvɝt/

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

R IH0 V ER1 T

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Definition of "revert"

Pronunciation: /ɹɨˈvɜːt/

Noun

One who, or that which, reverts.
One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
(due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

Example: "We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges."

Verb

(now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
To cause to return to a former condition.
(now rare) To return; to come back.

Example: "If they attack, we will revert to the bunker."
To return to the possession of.

Example: "When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author."
To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

Example: "Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print."
To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.

Example: "Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts."
To take up again or return to a previous topic.
(in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
(originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).

Example: "Please revert before Monday."
To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.