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- Revolution - 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.
- Revolution - 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.
- Revolution - 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.
- Revolution - 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.
- Revolution - 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.
- Revolution - n. - A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
- Revolution - 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.
- Revolutionary - a. - Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
- Revolutionary - n. - A revolutionist.
- Revolutioner - n. - One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.
- Revolutioniezed - imp. & p. p. - of Revolutionize
- Revolutionism - n. - The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
- Revolutionist - n. - One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
- Revolutionize - v. t. - To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.
- Revolutionizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Revolutionize
- Sorbonist - n. - A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.
- Orbit - n. - The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
- Solar - a. - Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
- Cometarium - n. - An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun.
- Revolutionary - a. - Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
- Zone - n. - The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
- Monseigneur - n. - My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
- Successive - a. - Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.
- Revolution - n. - A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
- Month - n. - One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
- Revolution - 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.
- Revolution - 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.
- Moon - n. - The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
- Spire - n. - The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
- Uranus - n. - One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
- Orb - n. - A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
- Orrery - n. - An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
- Parabolical - a. - Generated by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a parabola as a directing curve; as, a parabolic conoid.
- Cone - n. - A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
- Spindle - n. - A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- Primum mobile - - In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline.
- Period - n. - A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
- Menstrual - a. - Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.
- Year - n. - The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
- Neptune - n. - The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
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- H1755 דּוֹר - 1755 דּוֹר - דּוֹר - - dôwr - dore - or (shortened) דֹּר; from דּוּר; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling; age, [idiom] evermore, generation, (n-) ever, posterity. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G1995 ἐπιστροφή - 1995 ἐπιστροφή - ἘΠΙΣΤΡΟΦΉ - - epistrophḗ - ep-is-trof-ay' - from ἐπιστρέφω; reversion, i.e. morally, revolution:--conversion. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H1524 גִּיל - 1524 גִּיל - גִּיל - - gîyl - gheel - from גִּיל; a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy; [idiom] exceedingly, gladness, [idiom] greatly, joy, rejoice(-ing), sort. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8141 שָׁנֶה - 8141 שָׁנֶה - שָׁנֶה - - shâneh - shaw-neh' - (in plural or (feminine) שָׁנָה; from שָׁנָה; a year (as a revolution of time); [phrase] whole age, [idiom] long, [phrase] old, year([idiom] -ly). - Noun Feminine - heb
- H8140 שְׁנָה - 8140 שְׁנָה - שְׁנָה - - shᵉnâh - shen-aw' - (Aramaic) corresponding to שָׁנֶה; {a year (as a revolution of time)}; year. - Noun Feminine - arc
- G5157 τροπή - 5157 τροπή - ΤΡΟΠΉ - - tropḗ - trop-ay' - from an apparently primary to turn; a turn ("trope"), i.e. revolution (figuratively, variation):--turning. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H8622 תְּקוּפָה - 8622 תְּקוּפָה - תְּקוּפָה - - tᵉqûwphâh - tek-oo-faw' - or תְּקֻפָה; from נָקַף; a revolution, i.e. (of the sun) course, (of time) lapse; circuit, come about, end. - Noun Feminine - heb