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Meaning of 'revolution'
Meaning of 'revolution' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Revolution 
[ 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
- 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.
Meaning of 'revolution' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. revolution [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
Example in sentence:
- the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution
Meaning (2):
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
Example in sentence:
- the plane made three rotations before it crashed;
- the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year
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