revolution

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revolutions

1. 1.A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.

   • The revolution had completely transformed the monarchy into a republic.
   • The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life.

2. 2.The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.

3. 3.Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.

   • The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
   • The ratio between the speeds of revolution of wheel and disc is substantially equal to the reciprocal of the ratio between the diameter of the wheel and the diameter of the mean contact circle on the disc.

4. 4.In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.

   • It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun.

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