reversal process

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noun Photography.

a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.

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Origin of reversal process

First recorded in 1915–20

In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
How to Solve the Policing Crisis|Keli Goff|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
ISIS Fight Has a Spy Shortage, Intel Chair Says|Kimberly Dozier|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
The Cultural Crimes of Iggy Azalea|Amy Zimmerman|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
That, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills