Definition of revolution
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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..
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Mansion ::
Mansion (n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
Gyre ::
Gyre (n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit..
Revolution ::
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..
Parliament ::
Parliament (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts..
Cometarium ::
Cometarium (n.) An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun..
States-general ::
States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty..
Whig ::
Whig (n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist..
Lunistice ::
Lunistice (n.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution..
Flyer ::
Flyer (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11..
Conoid ::
Conoid (n.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc..
Circuit ::
Circuit (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun..
Emigre ::
Emigre (n.) One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence..
Geocyclic ::
Geocyclic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine..
Zone ::
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.
Revolutionism ::
Revolutionism (n.) The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
Dracontic ::
Dracontic (a.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon..
Chouan ::
Chouan (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution..
Trochometer ::
Trochometer (n.) A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.
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