I've never heard the word used in exactly that sense.

I've never looked up the definition, but I have used it an heard it used to mean that one falls back to a prior state.

"If I can't figure out an analytic (closed-form) solution, I'll revert to numerical methods."

"He tried to touch-type, but he continually reverted to using two fingers."

"Certain characteristics of some members of the mouse population reverted to atavistic forms."

I'm not sure these are correct, but that's the way I've seen it used.