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Definition of revolution:

  1. 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.
  2. A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
  3. Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

Synonyms:

revolve, mutation, cabal, pirouette, throe, orbit, riot, twist, swirl, bloodshed, rotary motion, alteration, revolving, epoch, order, novelty, reconstruction, geometry, strife, anarchy, repetition, reversal, sedition, unrest, civil disobedience, variation, agitation, swing, cataclysm, spin, subversion, turbulence, conversion, insubordination, turn, disturbance, reformation, foment, insurgency, insurgence, overturn, diversity, variety, resist, substitution, disorder, innovation, circuit, debacle, transformation, rotation, strike, renewing, transition, about-face, barricade, plot, transmutation, destruction, renewal, rotate, apostasy, violence, round, law, bioterrorism, convulsion, row, boycott, wriggle, vicissitude, whirling, wheel, uproar, agriterrorism, whirl, twirl, coup, secession, disintegration, metamorphosis, rising, overthrow, change, circumvolution, cycle, reel, turmoil, circle, gyration, junta, 9/11, outbreak, insurrection, tumult, roll, regeneration, 7/7.

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