Definition of revolution
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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..
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Orrery ::
Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..
Sans-culotte ::
Sans-culotte (n.) Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin..
Monthly ::
Monthly (a.) Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon..
Revolutionize ::
Revolutionize (v. t.) To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government..
Sidereal ::
Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day..
Revolutionary ::
Revolutionary (a.) Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators..
Neptune ::
Neptune (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years..
Theophilanthropist ::
Theophilanthropist (n.) A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.
Year ::
Year (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn..
Tricolor ::
Tricolor (n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution..
Peragration ::
Peragration (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution..
Ungula ::
Ungula (n.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse..
Oblatum ::
Oblatum (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.
Synodically ::
Synodical (a.) Pertaining to conjunction, especially to the period between two successive conjunctions; extending from one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet..
Cyclometer ::
Cyclometer (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle..
Month ::
Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month..
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