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revolution

noun
/ˌɹɛv.əˈluː.ʃən/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from revolvō
  2. derived from revolūtiō
  3. derived from revolucion
  4. inherited from revolucion

Definitions

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

    • The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.
    • The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life.

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

  3. Rotation

    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.
    • The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
    • Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix […]
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

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

      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.

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

      • the AI revolution
      • Ông Kac-Mac là kinh tế học K. M. Ông ấy ngiên kứu rõ ràng tư bản chủ ngĩa, dế quốc chủ ngĩa, zai kấp tranh dấu, vân vân ở dâu mà sinh ra; lịch sử nó thế nào, hiện tượng nó thế nào, và kết quả nó sẽ ra thế nào.

    3. A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.

    4. Consideration of an idea

      Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.

    5. a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is…

      a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.

    6. Ellipsis of American Revolution.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at revolution. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at revolution. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at revolution

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA