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revolution

noun

1 revolution

A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Roget 146: revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction etc. 162; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; ... show more

Roget 59: disorder; derangement etc. 61; irregularity; anomaly etc. (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness ... show more

Roget 140: change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, ... show more

Dutch: revolutie
Polish: rewolucja

2 revolution

The overthrow of a government by those who are governed.

Dutch: revolutie
Polish: rewolucja

3 revolution

A single complete turn (axial or orbital):
— The revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year.

synonyms: gyration, rotation.

Roget 312: rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration; volutation, circination, turbination, ... show more

Roget 138: periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation etc. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity.    bout, ... show more

Dutch: draaiing, ronde, revolutie, toer
Polish: rotacja


Moby thesaurus: Fabianism, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, ambit, amelioration, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, angular momentum, angular motion, angular velocity, antinomianism, apostasy, arsis, axial motion, beat, betterment ... show more.

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