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deviation
English
Etymology
From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatioMorphologically deviate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /divi?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
deviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)
- The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road
- A departure from the correct way of acting
- The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
- (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
- (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
- (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
- (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.
Derived terms
Related terms
- deviance
- deviate
- deviant
Translations
Anagrams
- antivideo
Danish
Noun
deviation c (singular definite deviationen, plural indefinite deviationer)
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Declension
Further reading
- “deviation” in Den Danske Ordbog
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revolution
English
Etymology
From Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revol?ti?nem, accusative singular of revol?ti? (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolv? (“roll back, revolve”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v??l(j)u???n/
- Rhymes: -u???n
- Hyphenation: re?vo?lu?tion
Noun
revolution (countable and uncountable, plural revolutions)
- A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
- 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.
- 1864, D. M. Warren, The Common-School Geography, Revised Edition, H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 6:
- The Earth has two motions: a daily revolution (or turning around) upon its axis, and a yearly course around the sun.
- 1878, George Fleming, A Text-Book of Veterinary Obstetrics, Baillière, Tindall, & Cox, page 123:
- Numerous cases are recorded which incontestibly prove that during pregnancy, the uterus perform a half or even a complete revolution, on itself, producing torsion of the cervix […]
- 1912, P. M. Heldt, The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction, Volume II: Transmission, Running Gear and Control, The Horseless Age Co. (1913), page 147:
- In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
Usage notes
- Astronomers today do not use revolution to refer to the turning of an object about an axis: they use rotation for that, and revolution only for the traversal of a body through an orbit (which also happens around some axis). (This may be somewhat customary, however, strictly speaking, using either word for either process would not be incorrect.)
Antonyms
- (sudden, vast change): evolution
Derived terms
- Revolution
- revolutionary
- revolutionize
- Compounds
- agricultural revolution
- French Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- information revolution
- palace revolution
- Russian Revolution
- solid of revolution
Related terms
- revolve
Translations
Further reading
- "revolution" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 270.
Danish
Etymology
From French révolution.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?volusjo?n/, [??volu??o??n]
Noun
revolution c (singular definite revolutionen, plural indefinite revolutioner)
- revolution (political upheaval)
- revolution (removal and replacement of a government)
- revolution (sudden, vast change in a situation or discipline)
Inflection
Derived terms
- revolutionere
- revolutionær
Further reading
- revolution on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /revolu?t?sjon/
Noun
revolution (plural revolutiones)
- revolution
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?v?l???u?n/
Noun
revolution c
- a revolution (upheaval, replacement of government, sudden change)
Declension
Related terms
- revolt
- revoltera
- revolutionsgardist
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