revolution

Revolution is a 10 letter word which starts with the letter R and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The act of revolving or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as the revolution of a wheel of a top of the earth on its axis etc.
(n.) Return to a point before occupied or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
(n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time or by a succession of similar events.
(n.) The motion of any body as a planet or satellite in a curved line or orbit until it returns to the same point again or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual anomalistic nodical sidereal or tropical revolution according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year the anomaly the nodes the stars or the tropics; as the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
(n.) The motion of a point line or surface about a point or line as its center or axis in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution) and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

The word revolution is a 10 letter word that has 4 syllable 's . The syllable division for revolution is: rev-o-lu-tion

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