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The Meaning of revolution
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(n.) A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
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(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.
Synonyms
Rotation
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periodicity
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return
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change
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alteration
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revulsion
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revolt
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reconstitution
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emeute.
Antonyms
Fixity
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permanence
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stability
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conservation
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allegiance
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stabilisation
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perpetuation
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suppression.
Rhymes
absolution
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aleutian
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andalusian
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attribution
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confucian
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constitution
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contribution
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convolution
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counterrevolution
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crucian
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destitution
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devolution
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dilution
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diminution
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dissolution
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distribution
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electrocution
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elocution
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evolution
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execution
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institution
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lilliputian
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lucian
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persecution
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pollution
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prosecution
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prostitution
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redistribution
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resolution
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restitution
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retribution
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shooshan
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solution
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substitution