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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
- 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.
- Notable - n. - One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.
- 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.
- Spindle - n. - A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- 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.)
- Saturn - n. - One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
- Revolving - a. - Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.
- Solar - a. - Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ring - n. - The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
- Orb - n. - A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Lunation - n. - The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.
- 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.
- Moon - n. - The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
- Pseudosphere - n. - The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.
- Revolution - n. - A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
- 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.
- Revolutionary - a. - Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
- Sans-culotte - n. - A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
- Year - n. - The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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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