REVOLUTION - Definiția din dicționar
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Rev`o*lu"tion (?), n. [F.
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2. Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
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That fear
Comes thundering back, with dreadful
On my defenseless head.
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3. The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events. “The short
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4. (Astron.) 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
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&hand_; The term is sometimes applied in astronomy to the motion of a single body, as a planet, about its own axis, but this motion is usually called
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5. (Geom.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a
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6. A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
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The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete
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7. (Politics) 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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The violence of
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&hand_; When used without qualifying terms, the word is often applied specifically, by way of eminence, to: (
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