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# revolution

«revolution» in Mova's school dictionary: **When people overthrow a government or ruler, often by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a revolution, revolutions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) When people overthrow a government or ruler, often by force, to change who runs the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#m1)

2) A very big change in how people live or work: the Industrial Revolution, a revolution in computers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#m2)

3) One complete turn around a centre or point: The wheel makes 60 revolutions a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#m3)

4) (science) The Earth's journey around the Sun, which takes one year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons: the American, French and Industrial Revolutions. In maths, one revolution is a full turn of 360°; half a revolution is 180°. In science, Earth rotates on its axis once a day and revolves around the Sun once a year. Rates: «revolutions per minute» (rpm). Phrases: «one full revolution», «revolutions per minute», «a technological revolution».

### examples

- One full revolution is 360 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x1)
- A quarter of a revolution is 90°. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x2)
- The Earth makes one revolution around the Sun each year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x3)
- The wheel turns at 50 revolutions per minute; how many in 3 minutes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x4)
- The revolution changed how the country was ruled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x5)
- The internet started a revolution in how we talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x6)
- The Industrial Revolution brought factories and trains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x7)
- Indeed, had the King her son not been deservedly beloved a revolution would certainly have arisen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/#x8)

### note

Countable: revolutions. Verb: revolve (go round) and revolt (rebel). Adjective: revolutionary. Trap: rotate = spin on own axis (Earth, once a day); revolve = go around something else (Earth around the Sun, once a year). Angles: revolution = 360°.

### In the corpora

- [The Haitian Revolution from 1791 overthrew slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and Haiti became independent in 1804.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/18/)
- [The French Revolution began in 1789, ended the monarchy in 1792 and spread new ideas about rights and citizens across Europe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/16/)
- [Coal powered the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/11/)
- [The Industrial Revolution began in Britain around 1760, when people began making things with machines in factories instead of by hand at home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/5/)
- [Canada became independent step by step and peacefully, not through a revolution.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revolution» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolution/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.