Revolution

[revə'luːʃ(ə)n] or ['rɛvə'lʊʃən]

Definition

(noun.) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed.

(noun.) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; 'the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution'.

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Definition

(n.) The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

(n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.

(n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.

(n.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.

(n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

(n.) A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.

(n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Rotation, gyration, whirling, circular motion.[2]. Change (in the political constitution of a country), organic change, successful revolt or rebellion.

Checker: Ramona

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt,reconstitution, emeute

ANT:Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation,perpetuation, suppression

Edited by Alexander

Definition

n. act of revolving: motion round a centre: course which brings to the same point or state: space measured by a revolving body: a radical change as of one's way of living: fundamental change in the government of a country: a revolt: a complete rotation through 360? a round of periodic changes as the revolutions of the seasons: the winding of a spiral about its axis: change of circumstances: consideration.—adj. Revolū′tionary pertaining to or tending to a revolution in government.—v.t. Revolū′tionise to cause a revolution or entire change of anything.—ns. Revolū′tionism; Revolū′tionist one who promotes or favours a revolution.—The American Revolution the change from the position of colonies to that of national independence effected by the thirteen American colonies of England in 1776; The French Revolution the downfall of the old French monarchy and the old absolutism (1789); The Revolution the expulsion of James II. from the throne of England (1689) and the establishment of a really constitutional government under William III. and Mary.

Editor: Vito

Unserious Contents or Definition

n. In politics an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically in American history the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order.

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