# revolution

Pronunciation: say "rev-uh-LOO-shuhn" /ˌɹɛv.əˈluː.ʃən/

## Noun

1. The overthrow of a government or political system, usually by the people it rules, often sudden and violent and bringing sweeping change.
   - Simple: When people remove their government, often by force, and put a new kind of rule in its place.
   - _The 1789 revolution swept away the French monarchy within a few years._
   - _Workers and soldiers joined the revolution that toppled the old regime._
2. A sudden, far-reaching change in a situation, a field of knowledge, or a way of thinking and acting.
   - Simple: A sudden, huge change in how people think, work, or do something.
   - _The digital revolution transformed how businesses store and analyze information._
   - _Her research sparked a quiet revolution in how doctors treat chronic pain._
3. The act of spinning about an axis, or a single full turn made while spinning.
   - Simple: The spinning of something around a center, or one full turn it makes.
   - _The engine reaches six thousand revolutions per minute at full throttle._
   - _With every revolution of the wheel, the old cart gave a loud squeak._
4. The travel of one celestial body along its orbit around another.
   - Simple: The movement of one space object all the way around another in its orbit.
   - _A single revolution of Jupiter around the Sun takes almost twelve Earth years._
   - _Astronomers timed the comet's revolution to predict its return._
5. A recurring cycle of periodic changes, as in the succession of the year's seasons.
   - Simple: A full round of changes that repeats, like the seasons coming and going each year.
   - _The slow revolution of the seasons governed the rhythms of rural life._
   - _Ancient calendars tracked the revolution of the year through solstices and equinoxes._

## Noun

6. The act of turning an idea over in the mind; careful mental consideration of something. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: The act of turning an idea over in your mind to think about it carefully.

## Origin

This word came into Middle English from Old French revolucion, which came from Late Latin revolūtiō ("the act of revolving"), based on Latin revolvō meaning "roll back, revolve."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/revolution (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).