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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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sequence
English
Etymology
From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?kw?ns/
Noun
sequence (countable and uncountable, plural sequences)
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- Complete the listed tasks in sequence.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
- he found no words to convey the impressions he had received; then he gave way to the anger always the sequence of the antagonism of opinion between them.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 12-13:
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
Usage notes
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse sequence with series.
Synonyms
- (a set of things next to each other in a set order): See Thesaurus:sequence
Hypernyms
- (mathematics): function
Hyponyms
- presequence
- (computing): escape sequence
Meronyms
- (mathematics): term
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)
- (transitive) to arrange in an order
- (transitive, biochemistry) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid
- (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer
Translations
References
Further reading
- sequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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