revolution : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783
  War of American Independence; American War of Independence; American Revolutionary War.
  

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• the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again.

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• (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the several points of the line or plane shall describe circles with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.

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• noun the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)
  English Revolution; Bloodless Revolution.
  

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• noun the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China; 1911-1912
  

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• a revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things.

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• noun the revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba; 1956-1959
  

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• noun a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
  Cultural Revolution.
  

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• the motion of the planet upon its own axis which constitutes one complete revolution.

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• noun a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
  spheroid.
  
  • it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid

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• a spheroid; a solid figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. It is called a prolate spheroid, or prolatum, when the ellipse is revolved about the major axis, and an oblate spheroid, or oblatum, when it is revolved about the minor axis.

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• noun the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)
  English Revolution; Bloodless Revolution.
  

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• noun the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917
  February Revolution.
  

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• noun the revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789-1799
  

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• noun the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)
  English Revolution; Bloodless Revolution.
  

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• noun a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
  Cultural Revolution.
  

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• noun the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
  

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• an hyperboloid described by an hyperbola revolving about one of its axes. The surface has two separate sheets when the axis of revolution is the transverse axis, but only one when the axis of revolution is the conjugate axis of the hyperbola.

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• noun the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
  Industrial Revolution.
  

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• noun a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911)
  

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• noun the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922
  October Revolution.
  

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• noun rate of revolution of a motor
  rev; rpm.
  
  • the engine was doing 6000 revs

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• noun the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922
  October Revolution.
  
• noun the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917
  February Revolution.
  

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• . (Geom.) See Revolution, n., 5.

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• noun the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
  Industrial Revolution.
  

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• (Math.), the point in which the axis pierces the surface.

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