Meaning of revolution | Babel Free

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1. A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
   countable
2. A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change
3. Ellipsis of American Revolution.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
4. The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action
5. The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
   countable
6. a person who takes part in, or is in favour of, (a) revolution. revolusionis الثُّوّار، مُناصِرو الثَّوْرَه революционер revolucionário revolucionář, -ka der/die Revolutionär(in) revolutionær επαναστάτηςrevolucionario revolutsionäär اقلاب طلب vallankumouksellinen révolutionnaireמהפכן क्रान्तिकारी मनुष्य prevratnici forradalmár aktivis revolusi byltingarmaður rivoluzionario 革命家 혁명가 revoliucionierius revolucionārs pemberontak revolutionairrevolusjonær rewolucjonista انقلابى revolucionário revol...
7. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation
8. to cause great changes in (ideas, methods etc). This new machinery will revolutionize the paper-making industry. omwenteling veroorsaak يُثَوِّر، يُحْدِثُ تَغييرات عَظيمَه، يُحْدِثُ إنْقِلابا революционизирам revolucionar způsobit revoluci revolutionieren revolutionere επιφέρω επανάσταση revolucionar pööret tekitama کاملا دگرگون کردن mullistaa révolutionner לַהָפוֹך आमूल परिवर्तित करना uvesti potpun preokret (promjenu), stubokom izmijeniti forradalmasít memperbaharui valda byltingu á/í rivolu...
   etc
9. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
   countable, uncountable
10. In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body
11. Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguished from axial rotation: the planetary revolution about the sun.
12. In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
    countable, uncountable
13. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
    countable, uncountable
14. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving
15. The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another.
16. A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
    countable, uncountable
17. A sudden or momentous change in a situation: the revolution in computer technology.
18. Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
    countable, uncountable
19. Geology A time of major crustal deformation, when folds and faults are formed.
    Geology
20. a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
    countable, uncountable
21. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the overthrow or repudiation of a regime or political system by the governed
22. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Marxist theory) the violent and historically necessary transition from one system of production in a society to the next, as from feudalism to capitalism
23. a far-reaching and drastic change, esp in ideas, methods, etc
24. movement in or as if in a circle

Equivalents

Examples

“The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.”

“Una rivoluzione è certamente la cosa più autoritaria che ci sia: è l'atto per il quale una parte della popolazione impone la sua volontà all'altra parte per mezzo di fucili, baionette e cannoni; mezzi autoritari, se ce ne sono; e il partito vittorioso, se non vuole aver combattuto invano, deve continuare questo dominio col terrore che le sue armi inspirano ai reazionari.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 […]”

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

“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.”

“In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.”

“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.”

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