revolutions
- 1Plural of revolution.
The twentieth century saw revolutions sweep across much of Europe and Asia.
The engine spins at thousands of revolutions per minute under full load.
Note
A regular plural that counts two very different things: upheavals that overturn a government or a way of thinking, and complete turns of a wheel, a shaft or a planet. The form itself never tells them apart, so the surrounding words do the work. Per minute signals rotation, and sweep signals politics. The plural only counts. Where revolution names an ongoing process, as in the revolution of the seasons, it stays singular.
revolutions is a form of revolution
revolution, noun: The overthrow of a government or political system, usually by the people it rules, often sudden and violent and bringing sweeping change. Full entry
- Forms
- revolutionrevolutions plural
- Spelling
- revolution → revolutions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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