Devolution :: Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.

Devolution :: Devolution (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

Evolutility :: Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and la

Evolutional :: Evolutional (a.) Relating to evolution.

Evolutionary :: Evolutionary (a.) Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions..

Evolutionism :: Evolutionism (n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7..

Evolutionist :: Evolutionist (n.) One skilled in evolutions.

Evolutionist :: Evolutionist (n.) one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics..

Revolution :: 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..

Revolution :: Revolution (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..

Revolution :: Revolution (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..

Revolution :: Revolution (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..

Revolution :: Revolution (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..

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

Revolution :: Revolution (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..

Revolutionary :: Revolutionary (a.) Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators..

Revolutionary :: Revolutionary (n.) A revolutionist.

Revolutioner :: Revolutioner (n.) One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.

Revolutioniezed :: Revolutioniezed (imp. & p. p.) of Revolutioniz.

Revolutionism :: Revolutionism (n.) The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

Revolutionist :: Revolutionist (n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.

Revolutionize :: Revolutionize (v. t.) To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government..

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