Definitions for the word "revolution" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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 annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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 surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 forcible overthrow of a government or social order. 2 any fundamental change or reversal of conditions. 3 revolving. 4 a single completion of an orbit or rotation. B time taken for this. 5 cyclic recurrence. [latin: related to *revolve]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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