Associations to the word «Revolution»

REVOLUTION, noun. A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.

REVOLUTION, noun. The removal and replacement of a government.

REVOLUTION, noun. Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.

REVOLUTION, noun. A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.

REVOLUTION, noun. In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.

REVOLUTION, noun. A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

REVOLUTION, noun. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution".

REVOLUTION, noun. The overthrow of a government by those who are governed.

REVOLUTION, noun. A single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year".