revolution

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

   the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution

2. 2
   noun

   A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.

   The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.

3. 3
   noun

   The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.

   For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.

4. 4
   noun

   Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.

   The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.

5. 5
   noun

   In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.

   It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.

6. 6
   noun

   A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

   the AI revolution

7. 7
   name

   Ellipsis of American Revolution.

   American TV, in the black-coffee hours of a Saturday morning, had other things to focus on. On this side of the Atlantic, two and a half centuries away from the Revolution, it’s easier to take it all in as a costume party, as the royals were borne through the streets like elaborately plated desserts.

8. 8
   noun

   the overthrow of a government by those who are governed

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revolūtiōnem, accusative singular of revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).