Revolution

Noun

 * 1) A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
 * 2) The removal and replacement of a government.
 * 3) Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.
 * 4) * 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
 * The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.
 * 1) A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.
 * 2) * 1864, D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography, Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:
 * The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
 * 1) * 1878, George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics, Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, page 123:
 * Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix
 * 1) In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
 * 2) A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

Antonyms

 * evolution

Derived terms
Compounds
 * revolutionary
 * revolutionize
 * agricultural revolution
 * artistic revolution
 * Industrial Revolution
 * solid of revolution
 * information revolution

Related terms

 * revolve

Adjectives for Revolution
anomalistic; bloodless; veritable; successive (pi); interior; public; complete; impending; synodic; radical; dynastic; incarnate; social; industrial; sidereal; inevitable; ineffective; orbital; hideous; violent; solemn; proletarian; periodic; fickle; salutary.

Verbs for Revolution
betray—; consummate—; chronicle—; crush —; drive to—; engineer—; foment—; forestall—; hail—; hatch—; instigate—; justify —; launch—; map—; plunge into—; promote—; resist—; shatter—; sponsor—; spur —; stamp out—; stave off—; subdue—.

Thesaurus
Fabianism, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, ambit, amelioration, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, antinomianism, apostasy, arsis, axial motion, beat, betterment, bout, bowling, break, breakup, capsizal, capsize, cataclysm, centrifugation, change, change of heart, changeableness, chaos, circle, circuit, circulation, circumgyration, circumrotation, circumvolution, civil disorder, confusion, constructive change, continuity, conversion, coup d'etat, course, crack-up, criminal syndicalism, culbute, cycle, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, diastole, difference, diffusion, discontinuity, disintegration, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, disruption, dissolution, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, downbeat, emeute, exfoliation, extremism, fitting, flip-flop, fragmentation, full circle, general uprising, gradual change, gradualism, gyration, gyre, improvement, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, jacquerie, lap, levee en masse, loop, lynch law, melioration, meliorism, metamorphosis, misrule, mitigation, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, modification, modulation, mutiny, nihilism, ochlocracy, orbit, outbreak, overset, overthrow, overturn, peasant revolt, pirouette, pivoting, primal chaos, progressivism, pulse, putsch, qualification, radical change, radical reform, radicalism, re-creation, realignment, rebellion, redesign, reel, reeling, reform, reformation, reformism, regeneration, remaking, renewal, reorganization, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revisionism, revival, revivification, revolt, revolute, revolve, riot, rising, roll, rolling, rotation, rotational motion, round, round trip, rounds, scaling, scattering, series, shake-up, shattering, shift, somersault, somerset, spell, spill, spin, spinning, subversion, sudden change, swinging, swirling, switch, swiveling, syndicalism, systole, take-over, thesis, tohubohu, total change, tour, transformation, transition, trolling, trundling, turbination, turmoil, turn, turnabout, turning, turnover, twirl, unruliness, upbeat, upheaval, uprising, upset, upturn, utopianism, variation, variety, violent change, volutation, volution, walk, wheel, wheeling, whir, whirl, whirling, worsening

Etymology
< reuolucion: <  revolution: <  revolutionem:, accusative singular of revolutio: <  revolvo:; see revolve.

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Arabic: ثورة
 * Armenian: հեղափոխություն (heġap'oxut'yun)
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 * Croatian: revolucija
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 * Hebrew: מהפכה (mahapekhá) ,
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 * Icelandic: bylting
 * Indonesian: revolusi
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 * Korean: 혁명
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: شۆڕش
 * Latin: revolutio
 * Persian:, شورش
 * Polish:, przewrót
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 * Scottish Gaelic: rèabhlaid
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 * Telugu: విప్లవం (viplavaM)
 * Thai: การปฏิวัติ
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 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: cuộc cách mạng


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 * Scottish Gaelic: rèabhlaid
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 * Japanese: 回転
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 * Swahili: geuza
 * Swedish: rotation
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 * Turkish: döngü


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 * : परिक्रमण (parikrama.n), क्रान्ति (krānti)
 * : क्रांती (krā.ntī)
 * : revolução (2,4), rotação (2)
 * : revolución
 * : vridning (2)
 * : భ్రమణం (ibhramaNaM) (2), పరిభ్రమణం (paribhramaNaM) (3)
 * : Puratchi

Noun

 * 1) revolution political upheaval
 * 2) revolution removal and replacement of a government
 * 3) revolution sudden, vast change in a situation or discipline

Etymology
From révolution:.

Derived terms

 * revolutionere
 * revolutionær

Noun

 * 1) a revolution (upheaval, replacement of government, sudden change)

Related terms

 * revolt
 * revoltera
 * revolutionsgardist