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..

Revolutionizing :: Revolutionizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolutioniz.

Revolutive :: Revolutive (a.) Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative.

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