Definition of revolution

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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..

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Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full..
Sans-culotte :: Sans-culotte (n.) Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin..
Revolutioniezed :: Revolutioniezed (imp. & p. p.) of Revolutioniz.
Minuteman :: Minuteman (n.) A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
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..
Adjunct :: Adjunct (n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of History..
Parliament :: Parliament (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts..
Mansion :: Mansion (n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
Loyalist :: Loyalist (n.) A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority; especially, one who maintains his allegiance to his prince or government, and defends his cause in times of revolt or revolution..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away..
Cyclometer :: Cyclometer (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle..
Solar :: Solar (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year..
Continental :: Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money..
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..
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..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
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..
Sans-culottic :: Sans-culottic (a.) Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical..
Notable :: Notable (n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body..
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