revolution

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Derived terms 1.3.4 Related terms 1.3.5 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

< Middle English reuolucion < Old French revolution < Late Latin revolutionem, accusative of revolutio (“‘a revolving’”) < Latin revolvere, pp. revolutus (“‘to revolve, turn over’”); see revolve.

[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːʃən

[edit] Noun

revolution (plural revolutions)

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1. A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.
2. The removal and replacement of a government.
3. The turning of an object around an axis.
4. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
5. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

[edit] Usage notes

• Astronomers today do not use revolution to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use rotation for that, and revolution only for the traversal of a body through an orbit.

[edit] Antonyms

• (sudden, vast change): evolution

[edit] Derived terms

• revolutionary
• revolutionize

Compounds

• agricultural revolution
• artistic revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• solid of revolution
• information revolution

[edit] Related terms

• revolve

[edit] Translations