From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreverse order/situation/process etcreverse order/situation/process etcORDER/SEQUENCEthe opposite order etc to what is usual or to what has just been stated The results were read out in reverse order (=with the worst first and the best last). → reverse
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reverse order/situation/process etc• Cosmologists have supposed that the universe might go into reverse and run through with all its physical laws in reverse order.• In fact we have just suggested the reverse order of development.• At the bottom of the pile, in reverse order of its importance, was the letter from the bishop.• Ultimately you are involved in a reverse process of what the historian H underwent while writing the book.• To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.• The reverse process, therefore, is to consider what we owe to other people.• We discuss in reverse order these three ways that languages can have words that share sound and meaning.• The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad. 